Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 14:06:17 -0400 From: "Phillip Smith (personal)" <phillip.smith@sympatico.ca> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: New install of FreeBSD 4.6 on Compaq Proliant ... problems with NIC? Message-ID: <004201c22773$528a68c0$aeb423cf@3bagsmedia>
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Oddly enough, I just rebooted the machine and accidentally didn't have the mouse plugged in (on a switch) and, presto, the NIC is working fine? Any thoughts on that? p. -----Original Message----- From: Phillip Smith (personal) [mailto:phillip.smith@sympatico.ca] Sent: July 9, 2002 10:24 AM To: 'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG' Subject: New install of FreeBSD 4.6 on Compaq Proliant ... problems with NIC? 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. phillip. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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