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ideogon
March 9th, 2009, 22:47
I finally got my FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE system to connect to my home network (a Verizon DSL router) by installing the correct driver (myk0) for my Marvell Yukon Ethernet adapter (ASUS M3A78-T motherboard). Now I can finally ping and look up hosts and nslookup, and I'm sure a couple other nifty things.

I cannot, however, connect to my DreamHost SSH account. I cannot update the ports collection using csup. I cannot either check my ports against the portaudit database file, because it won't download. These activities always result in an "operation timed out" or "no route to host" error. Therefor, I can't get anything actually useful done with my Internet connection!

Can you guys provide some leads? My /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/rc.conf are all globally readable. I've configured DHCP via sysinstall after installing this new Ethernet adapter, so it's added a couple things to the /etc/rc.conf and /etc/resolv.conf, but none of it looks obviously wrong to me.

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/etc/rc.conf
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ifconfig_myk0="DHCP"
hostname="dev.ideogon.com"
moused_type="intellimouse"
moused_enable="NO"
ntpdate_flags="ntp-1.vt.edu"
ntpdate_enable="YES"
rpcbind_enable="YES"
amd_enable="NO"
sshd_enable="NO"
inetd_enable="NO"

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/etc/resolv.conf
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search myhome.westell.com
nameserver 192.168.1.1
nameserver 192.168.1.1
pamdirac
March 9th, 2009, 23:05
you must turn off the Hardware checksumming.
ifconfig myk0 -rxcsum
or add in /etc/rc.conf something like this
ifconfig_myk0="-rxcsum DHCP"
ideogon
March 9th, 2009, 23:14
Amazing! Thanks so much, pamdirac!!! I'm updating ports and the outlook seems promising, again!

Just another small question: Why?! Why do I need to disable hardware checksumming? I'd have never connected those dots lol.
pamdirac
March 9th, 2009, 23:34
... Why?! Why do I need to disable hardware checksumming? ...

I had the same problem with a 88E8072 and after some test I found this "bug" in the marvell driver but I don't know the "Why"
trev
March 10th, 2009, 05:38
I had the same problem with a 88E8072 and after some test I found this "bug" in the marvell driver but I don't know the "Why"

I hope you filed a PR to get it fixed?
DutchDaemon
March 10th, 2009, 10:50
Just pick up an Intel or Broadcom for a few bucks somewhere. I assume you have room to expand?
pamdirac
March 10th, 2009, 14:53
I hope you filed a PR to get it fixed?

still no, I want to do other tests.

Just pick up an Intel or Broadcom for a few bucks somewhere ...

I found this Ethernet Adapter in my company laptop :(