Hi, everyone out there who had only seen timeouts like nve0: device timeout (4) on nve and __never got it working at all__ please try this patch[1] which made my nve working from 0 to 99. I still can get timeouts by for example flood pinging another machine on the local LAN but it all recovers on it's own and I can work on that machine and do things like find / over ssh without losing connectivity. Fixing the timeouts will be another problem that needs to be addressed later. Greetings Bjoern A. Zeeb [1] http://sources.zabbadoz.net/freebsd/patchset/nve-20051209-01.diff Index: if_nve.c ==================================================================RCS file: /shared/mirror/FreeBSD/r/ncvs/src/sys/dev/nve/if_nve.c,v retrieving revision 1.19 diff -u -p -r1.19 if_nve.c --- if_nve.c 7 Dec 2005 17:38:03 -0000 1.19 +++ if_nve.c 9 Dec 2005 17:50:32 -0000 @@ -643,6 +643,10 @@ nve_init_locked(struct nve_softc *sc) nve_stop(sc); DEBUGOUT(NVE_DEBUG_INIT, "nve: do pfnInit\n"); + /* Setup multicast filter */ + nve_setmulti(sc); + nve_ifmedia_upd_locked(ifp); + /* Setup Hardware interface and allocate memory structures */ error = sc->hwapi->pfnInit(sc->hwapi->pADCX, 0, /* force speed */ @@ -661,10 +665,6 @@ nve_init_locked(struct nve_softc *sc) sc->hwapi->pfnEnableInterrupts(sc->hwapi->pADCX); sc->hwapi->pfnStart(sc->hwapi->pADCX); - /* Setup multicast filter */ - nve_setmulti(sc); - nve_ifmedia_upd_locked(ifp); - /* Update interface parameters */ ifp->if_drv_flags |= IFF_DRV_RUNNING; ifp->if_drv_flags &= ~IFF_DRV_OACTIVE; -- Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT