From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 12 04:58:00 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F13F237B401 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 04:57:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dns.comrax.com (dns.comrax.com [194.90.246.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5D4643F85 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 04:57:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from noor@comrax.com) Received: from noor (mail.comrax.com [194.90.246.126]) by dns.comrax.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 17F0A72510 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:57:57 +0300 (IDT) From: "Noor Dawod" To: "FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List" Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:57:11 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1255" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4925.2800 Importance: Normal Subject: NIC has IP, but has "no carrier" X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 11:58:00 -0000 Hello, My computer is not connecting to the local network with the following configuration: dmesg.boot contains the following lines: ----------------------------------------- vr0: port 0xec00-0xec7f mem 0xfeafbc00-0xfeafbc7f irq 11 at device 12.0 on pci2 vr0: Ethernet address: 00:40:05:a5:00:04 miibus0: on vr0 amphy0: on miibus0 amphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto ifconfig -a reports the following after booting up: ----------------------------------------- vr0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 192.168.80.111 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.80.255 ether 00:40:05:a5:00:04 media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 Routing tables as reported by netstat -r: ----------------------------------------- Internet: Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire default 192.168.80.100 UGSc 0 0 vr0 localhost localhost UH 0 72 lo0 192.168.80 link#1 UC 1 0 vr0 192.168.80.100 link#1 UHLW 1 0 vr0 /etc/rc.conf contains the following lines, among others: ----------------------------------------- hostname="blah.server.net" tcp_extensions="NO" log_in_vain="NO" tcp_keepalive="NO" network_interfaces="auto" ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1" ifconfig_vr0="inet 192.168.80.222 netmask 255.255.255.0" defaultrouter="192.168.80.100" gateway_enable="NO" I also tried adding " media auto" in the ifconfig_vr0 above, but it didn't help. Same scenario. There's no problem in the cables as I use this same port in a Windows 2000 workstation. What am I missing? TIA, /Noor