Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 15:58:13 +0900 From: "Steiger, N. Wilson, (GS-12E)(TRNG) ATG WESTPAC" <steigerw@atgwp.navy.mil> To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: 3c905b-tx not working on fresh install of FreeBSD 5.0 Message-ID: <E02BB1E9B873D711ABF60008C7DFB2691760BD@exchangesvr.atgwp.navy.mil>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
To all: I have just installed FreeBSD 5.0 on a Pent. 200 MMX w/192 MB RAM and 3-8 GB HDs (SCSI-using AHA-2940U). My NIC is a 3c905b-tx. The motherboard is set to non-plug-and-play. While booting the NIC shows link on my hub, but no activity (duh), but as soon as the kernel sends configuration parameters to the NIC it goes offline...no link lights or anything. I know the NIC works fine as I was using it with Win98SE just minutes before loading FreeBSD 5.0. I use the NICs config prog to check all the settings and they all appear to be fine. This is only my fourth install of FreeBSD so I am quite the novice, but I have never ran in to an issue with the NIC doing this before... The NIC does state (hw-loopback) in ifconfig, but I can not find a way to get this changed. I have tried to set the mediaopt setting to 100baseTX or even 10baseT/UTP, but neither fix the issue. "ifconfig" sees the card fine before I send the IP settings to the NIC, but once I set the IP the link lights disappear. The ifconfig command still shows my card, but I can't ping outside the box. I can ping the IP that I set to the NIC and the local loopback. Please help!! V/R, Wilson Steiger
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?E02BB1E9B873D711ABF60008C7DFB2691760BD>