On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 09:33:21AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 01:56:27PM +0100, Sven Aluoor wrote: > > On Sun, 2 Nov 2008 08:42:53 +0100 > > Matthias Apitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > El d?a Sunday, November 02, 2008 a las 02:48:13AM +0300, Boris > > > Samorodov escribi?: > > > > Seems that you may be interested at: > > > > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=343551+0+current/freebsd-current > > > > Hi Boris > > > > This link reference to an empty document > > > > > Known issues and FreeBSD work for the eeePC series are described here: > > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/AsusEee > > > > > > HIH > > > > Hi Matthias > > > > Thanks for the wikipage. I quote from there: > > > > Atheros L1 FastEthernet > > This one is second generation of L1 controller which is supposed to be > > heavily modified by Atheros after acquiring Attansic. This controller > > uses different bits/meaning in register layouts and seems to use > > different descriptor formats. This is not supported by the age(4) > > driver. > > > > In clear text: at the moment there is no driver available? Is this > > correct?
That's not true anymore. There *IS* a driver, ale(4). See below. > > This might be applicable: > > I recently send Yong-Hyeon PYUN an Asus P5Q SE motherboard, solely to > develop a driver for the Attansic L1 chip that's on the motherboard. > After a few weeks he returned to me a driver called ate(4), which > supports the Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 NICs. The description I > got, as well as the driver: > > "Ok, here is a working driver, ate(4), for Atheros AR8121/AR8113 > and AR8114. It passed minimal functional requirement of network > driver of FreeBSD but it still needs more test and cleanups. > I'm not sure you have hardwares to test ate(4) but if you have > it give it a try. Note it seems that the hardware, at least AR8121, > has checksum offload bug so I disabled Tx side checksum offload. > TSO seems to work though. > > The Tx performance is 920Mbps or higher but Rx performance > is 850~870 Mbps which is lower than Tx. It also requires a lot of > CPU cycles to push the hardware to limit but I think it comes from > hardware limitation not from ate(4) itself." > > There is absolutely no guarantee that this is the same exact NIC used on > the Asus Eee, but there's a chance. > One of FreeBSD developer also confirmed that ale(4) works on his Eeepc 1000H. :-) > This driver isn't publicly available yet, and I do not feel comfortable > sending it to people here without Yong-Hyeon's permission. I've CC'd > him so he can put it up on freebsd.org somewhere and let folks test it, > assuming it will/does work with the Asus Eee. > I've sent CFT to CURRENT ML and waiting for feedbacks from users. http://marc.info/?t=122533988800003&r=1&w=2 (For unknown reason archiving service of CURRENT ML does'nt seem to work. :-( ) I'm not subscribed to questions@ so please CC to me. -- Regards, Pyun YongHyeon _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
