Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:05:39 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Marius =?iso-8859-1?Q?N=FCnnerich?= <marius@nuenneri.ch>, FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ale0 gets no carrier Message-ID: <200910221905.n9MJ5dsO063534@lava.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <b649e5e0910221122l7c67fe8ei2fcce742fea5753c@mail.gmail.com > References: <b649e5e0910221122l7c67fe8ei2fcce742fea5753c@mail.gmail.com>
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At 02:22 PM 10/22/2009, Marius N=FCnnerich wrote: >Hi Pyun, all, > >today I installed FreeBSD 8-STABLE r198366 on a new Box. It has a Atheros= nic: >ale0@pci0:2:0:0: class=3D0x020000 card=3D0x831c1043 chip=3D0x1026196= 9 >rev=3D0xb0 hdr=3D0x00 > vendor =3D 'Attansic (Now owned by Atheros)' > device =3D 'PCI-E ETHERNET CONTROLLER (AR8121/AR8113 )' > class =3D network > subclass =3D ethernet > >ale0: flags=3D8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 >=20 >options=3D319a<TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,WOL_MCAST,WO= L_MAGIC> > ether 00:24:8c:a4:0a:b3 > media: Ethernet autoselect (none) > status: no carrier > >The nic gets no carrier at all. I tried against two known-working nics >with a cross-over cable and against a dsl-modem. >Any idea what to try? Will happily test patches. Did you try and give it an IP address so that its=20 "UP" ? Some nics dont seem to have carrier until=20 you put it in UP state with an IP. Try something simple like ifconfig ale0 192.168.255.254/30 ---Mike > - Marius >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike
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