On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:44:24AM +0200, Nils Beyer wrote:
>
> Hi Gulyaev,
>
> Gulyaev Ghosh wrote:
> > Since I ask on the FreeBSD forums, there is a proposition to check
> > alx-freebsd and have initialized interface.
> >
> > So if someone have similar hardware, you can got your experience with
> > that project and share info.
>
> I've got an onboard "AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet" adapter. With your proposed GIT-
> repository and using its branch "master" I'm able to rudimentarily use the
> NIC. But only if the network cable is short (< 2m). Using longer cables gives
> me a "no carrier" status. When it is connected, speed is abysmal and functio-
> nality ceases as soon as I perform an "iperf" benchmark until I reboot.
>
> But for small data transfers (SSH, RSYNC, RDP) it's okay. Mark has done a good
> job so far:
> ===============================================================================
> #dmesg | grep alx
> alx0: <Qualcomm Atheros AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet> port 0x2000-0x207f mem
> 0xd0400000-0xd043ffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2
> alx0: Ethernet address: 5c:f9:dd:55:c9:fb
>
> #ifconfig alx0
> alx0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> ether 5c:f9:dd:55:c9:fb
> inet6 fe80::5ef9:ddff:fe55:c9fb%alx0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
> nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
> media: Ethernet autoselect
> status: no carrier
>
> #pciconf -evl | tail -13
> alx0@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x05621028 chip=0x10911969
> rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
> vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
> device = 'AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet'
> class = network
> subclass = ethernet
> PCI-e errors = Correctable Error Detected
> Non-Fatal Error Detected
> Unsupported Request Detected
> Non-fatal = Unsupported Request
> Corrected = Bad TLP
> Bad DLLP
> REPLAY_NUM Rollover
> Replay Timer Timeout
> ===============================================================================
AFAIK yongari@ is working on it.
> Regards,
> Nils
Kevin
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