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Date:      Sat, 29 Jul 2000 11:52:25 -0400 (EDT)
From:      thursday@altavista.net
To:        jpaetzel@hutchtel.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   re: nic woes
Message-ID:  <00072911522569.26984@weba6.iname.net>

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Thanks for your reply!

>What do you mean by "voila, nothing"?
Sorry; I mean I get the same behavior as before. I can ping its ip address, and 127.0.0.1, but I can't get out on my local network.

>Are you saying that this is a machine that was >networking properly and
>suddenly it wasn't, and you think that it is an OS >problem?
One day the machine was working properly. The next day, it had dropped off the network. I hadn't done anything to its configuration. I had thought it was due to the nic being bad. I did back out my custom kernel and reinstall GENERIC, with no change (the machine still doesn't come up on the network).

>Sounds like the card is set to full duplex or you are >mixing /10 and /100
>cards or something like that.  I think that you can >eliminate the hub and
>the cable as possible causes.  This leaves it to be >either the NIC or some
>kind of configuration issue.

the old nic--the one I thought was dead--was just a /10. All the cards in all my machines here are /10s except for in my gateway machine which has a /100 going to my dsl modem. But...I'm not having any problems with any other machines. 

So far, I've tried three nics (one that I know for sure is good) in the different available pci slots in the machine. A friend of mine thinks it's a bad motherboard, but before I start salvaging hardware from the machine, I want to be sure.re. 

Thanks for all your help or any ideas...


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