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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
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