Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 20:56:51 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au> To: JAKO Andras <goya@eik.bme.hu> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: EtherExpress Pro/10+ Message-ID: <Pine.OS2.3.95.1000621205025.1181A-100000@CENTRAL> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10006201222070.8025-100000@goliat>
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On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, JAKO Andras wrote:
> I've got a problem with my Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ nic. I use a TP
> cable.
>
> When I switch on my 4.0-STABLE box, the nic doesn't seem to work. The OS
> recognizes my card:
>
> ex0: <Intel Pro/10+> at port 0x210-0x21f irq 5 on isa0
> ex0: Ethernet address 00:a0:c9:ce:35:30
>
> and ifconfig ex0 shows, that ex0 is up.
>
> But if I try to access any other host, there's no response. (E.g. I can't
> ping my default gateway.) The solution is to do some random
>
> ifconfig [-]link[012]
>
> Sometimes I do some 6 or 7 ifconfig commands, sometimes only 1 of them
> helps, and sometimes the nic works just fine as I start up my box, without
> any further actions.
>
> There are many subsets of chosen links (what ifconfig shows) from the 0,
> 1, 2 set by the time the nic works. E.g. now ifconfig shows
>
> <UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,LINK0,LINK1,LINK2>
>
> but there were many other combinations of LINK0, LINK1 and LINK2, when my
> card started to work.
I had a frustrating experience with one of these under 2.2.7-R. I
eventually concluded that it only seemed to work with the ix driver
included in the kernel, but unused. I didn't get to the point of trying
the link flags. That was a long time ago, so I can't really suggest this
will help.
You're probably better off getting a different NIC. For a workstation,
even an NE2000 clone would get you out of trouble (with a server it pays
to be more discerning in selecting hardware).
--
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