Nforce Lan Freeze Issue

[Chagani]

Did Zeph or any of the beta testers figure out why nforce lan crashes with 2 cpus? If so, what was the problem?

[Chagani]

nobody?

[Ianxxx]

[cite] Chagani:[/cite]Did Zeph or any of the beta testers figure out why nforce lan crashes with 2 cpus? If so, what was the problem?

I don't know but I just installed 10.5.2 including new kernel and same issue so I hope Zeph has had better luck than me

[megaargon1]

From what I know, the AMD Leopard was not friendly with my Nforce onboard Lan. I decided to unplug and connect my connection to a dedicated Ethernet card, and that resolved the problem. You may want to checkout the WikiDot to see if there a solution (I think there is). Nforce drivers are there as well, I hope they are compatible with yours. Post your specs.

[damnesiac]

Zeph is running EFI on his install and supposedly that has fixed the problem unless uploading and downloading a lot at the same time. I might have misread something so don't quote me but that's from my understanding.

[Puttabong]

damnesiac, I personally experienced this on my nForce 4 Board,

Rev. 1 - Working - I had to use one of the workarounds,
disabling nForce LAN, and enabling the second LAN port (Marvell), it worked fine

-> NO Lan Freezes

Rev. 2 - Working Out of the Box without having to be patched,

-> NO Lan Freezes.

However, I am using an AirPort Extreme now, hence Wi-Fi goodness.

[Chagani]

I currently use the cpus=1 fix. However, I was just wondering what ktexts/code/settings/etc were different between Rev 1 and Rev 2 (lan-wise) so that we can zero in on what the problem is.

Puttabong could you send me your forcedeth and ionetworkingfamily ktext (from Rev 2) and any other ktext you think might be related so I can test?

[Puttabong]

I think damnesiac is right about EFI.

I have no Idea what the exact Error is, but it's certainly related to forcedeth, as Marvell's skge.kext (for my Marvell Yukon LAN Port!) and Wi-Fi always worked flawlessly for me on Rev.1.

Lan Freezes only occured whilst using nForce LAN and forcedeth.

The problem might be solved by manually installing EFI on Rev.1, I don't know whether the kexts of mine will be compatible with yours, I doubt it actually. You can try if you want to...

[Chagani]

Thanx Puttabong... Will try skge and EFI...

[Puttabong]

Skge.kext is a driver for my second LAN Port by Marvell Yukon

I don't think that you also have the same LAN Port, or do you?

If you don't have two LAN Ports, only cpus=1 or using Wi-Fi works.

Yes, try installing EFI, and wait for Rev.2 at the same time!