From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jun 21 13:11:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from posgate.acis.com.au (posgate.acis.com.au [203.14.230.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 021F037C0D7 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 13:11:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (uucp@localhost) by posgate.acis.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id GAA22367; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 06:09:41 +1000 Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (central.apana.org.au [203.9.107.245]) by bullseye.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA24407; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 21:03:44 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 20:56:51 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew MacIntyre To: JAKO Andras Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: EtherExpress Pro/10+ In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-X-Sender: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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: 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 > > > > 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). -- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andrew.macintyre@aba.gov.au (work) | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au (play) | Belconnen ACT 2616 andymac@pcug.org.au (play2) | Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message