Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 15:30:47 +0100 From: Daniel Bye <dan@slightlystrange.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New install of FreeBSD 4.6 on Compaq Proliant ... problems with NIC? Message-ID: <20020709143046.GB1552@catflap.home.slightlystrange.or> In-Reply-To: <001f01c22754$5087fa20$aeb423cf@3bagsmedia> References: <25741.1026221098@www42.gmx.net> <001f01c22754$5087fa20$aeb423cf@3bagsmedia>
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On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 10:24:20AM -0400, Phillip Smith (personal) wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm hoping that someone has run across this problem before and therefore > might have some insight into this unusual technical mystery (to me, > anyway). > > I've recently purchased a Compaq Proliant 1600 server and installed > FreeBSD 4.6 (release) on it using this document as a reference: > http://www.geocities.com/rlcomp_1999/freeBSD-CPQ.txt > > As the system doesn't have a RAID card, the install was breathtakingly > simple (as I've become accustomed to with FreeBSD). Everything installed > as expected and, on reboot, the system booted the kernel and started all > daemons. A review of the dmesg output shows no issues (I wish I could > include it, but herein lies the problem). > > So, here the issue ... > > When I try to connect/ping/whatever an network address, I get the > message 'host is down'. All settings in the rc.conf are correct, we use > static IPs and the router address is correct, as is the IP. At first, I > thought it was an issue with the integrated NIC (although there were no > errors) and tried inserting a PCI NIC (Asante) into one of the many free > PCI slots. I rebooted, the new NIC was discovered and configured > (without error) and appears in dmesg -- no problem. I adjusted rc.conf > (via /stand/sysinstall) and brought up the interface ... still no > ability to connect/ping/whatever to another network device. > > I'm pretty stumped at the moment. I haven't done a piles of research on > this issue yet, but I'm thinking that I've overlooked something pretty > basic. One thought is that I set-up the Compaq using the SmartStart CD > and indicated that I was setting up a SCO Unix 2.1 OS (as recommended by > the instructions linked above). Perhaps that has something to do with > it? > > Anyway, I'm relatively comfortable with FreeBSD installation, so I'm > thinking it's less an installation/software issue than it is a > hardware/setup issue? > > Any thoughts, advice, flames, etc. appreciated. Does ifconfig show sensible values? Can you ping 127.1? Or the NIC's IP address? Have you tried the ethernet lead in a different box and/or a different ethernet lead in this box? Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3D73 AF47 D448 C5CA 88B4 0DCF 849C 1C33 3C48 2CDC _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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