Re: problem with vr0
Oooh, the dreaded vr driver, coming back to haunt us all again.
A couple years ago when I put FreeBSD on my VIA EPIA800 box the darned
vr driver would always crap out with watchdog timeout errors,
essentially killing the connection. I somehow managed to get all my
important files on to the machine before this problem became a problem
-- getting them off (no cdrom or floppy) became my worst nightmare.
The VIA mobo cd supposedly had an updated driver but it wouldn't compile
-- I remember pulling out all my hair and searching newsgroups for days
finding nothing of value. I was borderlining insanity by time I figured
out how to fix it -- with a one liner -- just had to update a single
depreciated function call.
I sent my fix back to VIA but they were hesitent to add it for 'legal'
reasons. I later found out from one of the FreeBSD guys that the VIA
driver was just a rip off of the FreeBSD vr driver in the first place
(so much for their legal reasons).
Fortunately a later release of FreeBSD fixed most vr problems for me,
although, I must admit it's always been a bit flakey.
Just thought this story was appropriate :-)
--James
walt wrote:
>
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, George Georgalis wrote:
>
>
>>Just occurs to me. I've never heard of modules in BSD. Do they exist?
>>Is the vr0 driver something that can be compiled, added and removed
>>without rebooting?
>
>
> Sure. Man {kldload, kldunload, kldstat}.
>
> # locate if_vr.ko
> /modules/if_vr.ko
>
> I wish I knew enough to fix the code myself, but :o(
>
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