Re: ASUS & SK driver

[Jason Ryan <jr_(_at_)_vincentchrisp_(_dot_)_com_(_dot_)_au>]

Hi,
I had a similar problem with OpenBSD 3.6 and the sk driver on ASUS 
"P4P800 SE" board with occaisonal sk0 interface failures, especially 
during/after rsync with remote server.
"Packets flow normally until you push it hard.  Then it wedges and needs 
an "ifconfig down", "ifconfig up" to get unstuck." From: Wolfgang S. 
Rupprecht, subject: Re: Marvell Gigabit, misc_(_at_)_openbsd_(_dot_)_org, date: 
2004-06-29 09:29:06.
My solution was to upgrade /usr/src/sys/dev/pci/if_sk.c & if_skreg.h to 
cvs current & rebuilt GENERIC kernel with this change.  Then retested 
rsync to remote server, with no more network dropouts.  I did this 
upgrade of the sk driver from cvs current on 24/11/2004 and it worked, 
but don't know if there'd be any dependency problems now. See 
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/pci/if_sk.c

Relevent dmesg:
skc0 at pci2 dev 5 function 0 "Marvell SKv2" rev 0x13: irq 11
skc0: Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter
sk0 at skc0 port A: address 00:0e:a6:a5:79:49
eephy0 at sk0 phy 0: Marvell 88E1000* Gigabit PHY

- Jason.

L. V. Lammert wrote:

> Doing a server setup with an ASUS A7V88 board, .. and the ethernet 
> port on the mb just died (dmesg below)! I have seen this problem 
> before, but at that time it was suggested that booting with a Linux CD 
> actually caused it.
>
> This time, nothing other than the 3.6 installation CD has been in the 
> machine. Is there any info I could provide to help isolate the 
> problem? This time it occurred during the download of some packages, 
> .. though with previous boards it stopped passing traffic at random 
> times.
>
>     Lee