Re: Linksys EG1032 not SysKonnect anymore as of rev. 3

[Johan P . Lindström]

For what it's worth, in my efforts of finding and acquiring sk(4)
based network adapters I have found that the D-LINK DGE-530T cards are
still att first revision as of today's date and the tech support team
(.se) knows of no plans to change chipsets.

-- JPL

Re: Linksys EG1032 not SysKonnect anymore as of rev. 3

[Johan P . Lindström]

Now this is odd, I finally got some time over to install the new Linksys
card, this is a cut down dmesg from a box with two of the old (rev.2)
Linksys EG1032 cards (sk) and one new (rev.3) (sk?) EG1032 card.
 OpenBSD 3.7 (GENERIC) #50: Sun Mar 20 00:01:57 MST 2005
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: Intel Pentium III ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 930 MHz
cpu0:
FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,F
XSR,SSE
real mem = 401055744 (391656K)
avail mem = 358821888 (350412K)
 
 > OK, so here is the first one

skc0 at pci1 dev 8 function 0 "Linksys EG1032" rev 0x12: irq 11
skc0: Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet (0x1)
sk0 at skc0 port A: address 00:12:17:51:e0:14
eephy0 at sk0 phy 0: Marvell 88E1011 Gigabit PHY, rev. 3
 > Number two

skc1 at pci1 dev 13 function 0 "Linksys EG1032" rev 0x12: irq 5
skc1: Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet (0x1)
sk1 at skc1 port A: address 00:12:17:51:e0:16
eephy1 at sk1 phy 0: Marvell 88E1011 Gigabit PHY, rev. 3
 > But what about this? I was not expecting this at all I must say.
 skc2 at pci1 dev 14 function 0 "Linksys EG1032" rev 0x10: can't find mem
space
 

Would anyone give me some hints on how to resolve this "can't find mem
space" issue?
 The sk man page does not detail this specific issue.
 I have tried swapping slots with the cards and tried the new card solo, but
without success, same issue...
 Googling the archives I found some references to pcibios(4), after reading
it, I'm not sure how to use it, though my BIOS "PnP OS mode" is disabled.
  // Johan

 On 7/1/05, Johan P. Lindstrvm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 6/30/05, Martin Reindl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Johan P. Lindstrvm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > It is with great sorrow I must report that the Linksys EG1032 cards as
> > > of revision 3 no longer features the SySKonnect (sk) chips.
> > > I bought 2 of them, they turned out to be revision 2 (SySKonnect), as
> > > per
> > > the hardware section on www.openbsd.org  <
> > http://www.openbsd.org>
> > > (should probably be updated, im too green to submit a diff, sorry)
> > > Now I bought 10 more, and imagine my face when i saw the stupid crab
> > > on the
> > > chip, for those who know these things, it also says:
> > > RLT8169S-32
> >
> > Probably supported by re(4), send a dmesg.
> >
> > Martin
> >
> >  It would seem so, the chip, 8169S is at least, I will make sure to send
> a dmesg to dmesg@
>  Any ideas as of where / how to get hold of older batches with the skchips?
Where could I ask my vendor to turn?
>  And just to explain my pov. I'm not in any way claiming that realtek is
> bad, I just did not get what I was under the impression I bought.
>  -- J

Re: Linksys EG1032 not SysKonnect anymore as of rev. 3

[Johan P . Lindström]

On 6/30/05, Martin Reindl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Johan P. Lindstrvm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > It is with great sorrow I must report that the Linksys EG1032 cards as
> > of revision 3 no longer features the SySKonnect (sk) chips.
> > I bought 2 of them, they turned out to be revision 2 (SySKonnect), as
> > per
> > the hardware section on www.openbsd.org  <
> http://www.openbsd.org>
> > (should probably be updated, im too green to submit a diff, sorry)
> > Now I bought 10 more, and imagine my face when i saw the stupid crab
> > on the
> > chip, for those who know these things, it also says:
> > RLT8169S-32
>
> Probably supported by re(4), send a dmesg.
>
> Martin
>
>  It would seem so, the chip, 8169S is at least, I will make sure to send a
dmesg to dmesg@
 Any ideas as of where / how to get hold of older batches with the sk chips?
Where could I ask my vendor to turn?
 And just to explain my pov. I'm not in any way claiming that realtek is
bad, I just did not get what I was under the impression I bought.
 -- J

Re: vge, then? Was: Re: Linksys EG1032 not SysKonnect anymore as of rev. 3

[Brad]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 09:53:24PM +0200, Nico Meijer wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> > > Probably supported by re(4), send a dmesg.
> > 
> > They don't handle jumbo frames quite as well as sk, though...
> 
> The EG1032 have served me perfectly so far, but I'm not going to switch
> to a RealTek chipset.
> 
> How decent is the vge(4) compared to the sk chipset? Anyone care to
> comment on that?
> 
> Thanks... Nico

For a "low end" targetted chipset vge(4) is actually pretty damn good.
It can do up to 16k Jumbos and has TCP/IP checksum offload which actually
seems to work without any issues. The RealTek chipset (re(4)) cannot do
a full standard sized Jumbo frame (9k) but only 7440 bytes instead,
quite lame, and TX checksum offload seems to have issues with some revs
of the chipset.

vge, then? Was: Re: Linksys EG1032 not SysKonnect anymore as of rev. 3

[Nico Meijer]

Hi all,

> > Probably supported by re(4), send a dmesg.
> 
> They don't handle jumbo frames quite as well as sk, though...

The EG1032 have served me perfectly so far, but I'm not going to switch
to a RealTek chipset.

How decent is the vge(4) compared to the sk chipset? Anyone care to
comment on that?

Thanks... Nico

Re: Linksys EG1032 not SysKonnect anymore as of rev. 3

[Stuart Henderson]

--On 30 June 2005 17:36 +0200, Martin Reindl wrote:


Johan P. Lindstrvm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


It is with great sorrow I must report that the Linksys EG1032 cards
as of revision 3 no longer features the SySKonnect (sk) chips. I
 bought 2 of them, they turned out to be revision 2 (SySKonnect), as
 per
the hardware section on www.openbsd.org 
(should probably be updated, im too green to submit a diff, sorry)
 Now I bought 10 more, and imagine my face when i saw the stupid crab
 on the
chip, for those who know these things, it also says:
 RLT8169S-32


Probably supported by re(4), send a dmesg.


They don't handle jumbo frames quite as well as sk, though...

Re: Linksys EG1032 not SysKonnect anymore as of rev. 3

[Martin Reindl]

Johan P. Lindstrvm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> It is with great sorrow I must report that the Linksys EG1032 cards as
> of revision 3 no longer features the SySKonnect (sk) chips.
>  I bought 2 of them, they turned out to be revision 2 (SySKonnect), as
>  per
> the hardware section on www.openbsd.org 
> (should probably be updated, im too green to submit a diff, sorry)
>  Now I bought 10 more, and imagine my face when i saw the stupid crab
>  on the
> chip, for those who know these things, it also says:
>  RLT8169S-32

Probably supported by re(4), send a dmesg.

Martin