[haiku-development] Re: Ethernet drivers question
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 01:13:26 +0200
On 21/07/2014 01:11, François Revol wrote:
> On 21/07/2014 00:19, François Revol wrote:
>> On 20/07/2014 17:07, Axel Dörfler wrote:
>>> On 07/20/2014 05:20 AM, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>>>> I pointed out that the Ethernet chip was supported in Haiku R1A4. I
>>>> was able to web-browse with Web Positive.
>>>
>>> We have a compatibility layer for FreeBSD drivers -- we're able to adopt
>>> them pretty much without any changes.
>>> If the driver does work in Haiku R1alpha4, it could be that it has been
>>> broken in FreeBSD at a later point (as that release is quite old already).
>>> In that case, it's likely that we adopted the bug in the mean time. So
>>> you might want to check out a nightly build to see if your hardware
>>> still works.
>>
>> There seems to be some regression, on wifi drivers at least:
>> https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/10673
>
> Btw, I also have a lot of trouble currently uploading packages from
> virtualbox.
>
> I tested several emulated cards, but they all exhibit the same behaviour.
> For small transfers it looks ok, but for big ones, after a while
> transfers just halt, the lem_taskq, consumer and reader kernel threads
> eat up cpu, and tcpdump show a flood in both ways, as if each side is
> trying to retransmit until it's acked.
(and oddly I can scp them to the host then upload from the host just
fine, it's just less handy)
François.
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