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Date:      Thu, 12 Jun 2003 08:55:00 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Mike Sturdee <sturdee@mikesweb.com>
To:        Noor Dawod <noor@comrax.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: NIC has IP, but has "no carrier"
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.40L0.0306120854330.9469-100000@saturn.mikesweb.com>
In-Reply-To: <DDECKKNNPBBCDLPMFBHLMEOFDDAA.noor@comrax.com>

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No problem, have been there enough times.. ;)

-Mike

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Noor Dawod wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It was a bad cable indeed... pretty amazing how stupid someone could be.
> Thanks for the quick help!
>
> Noor
>
>
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: Mike Sturdee [mailto:sturdee@mikesweb.com]
> | Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 2:46 PM
> | To: Noor Dawod
> | Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List
> | Subject: Re: NIC has IP, but has "no carrier"
> |
> |
> | Do you have link light on the NIC and switch? Sounds like a bad cable.
> |
> | -Mike
> |
> |
> | On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Noor Dawod wrote:
> |
> | > Hello,
> | >
> | > My computer is not connecting to the local network with the
> | following
> | > configuration:
> | >
> | > dmesg.boot contains the following lines:
> | > -----------------------------------------
> | > vr0: <VIA VT3043 Rhine I 10/100BaseTX> port 0xec00-0xec7f mem
> | > 0xfeafbc00-0xfeafbc7f irq 11 at device 12.0 on pci2
> | > vr0: Ethernet address: 00:40:05:a5:00:04
> | > miibus0: <MII bus> on vr0
> | > amphy0: <Am79C873 10/100 media interface> on miibus0
> | > amphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
> | >
> | > ifconfig -a reports the following after booting up:
> | > -----------------------------------------
> | > vr0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> | > 	inet 192.168.80.111 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.80.255
> | > 	ether 00:40:05:a5:00:04
> | > 	media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
> | > 	status: no carrier
> | > lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
> | > 	inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
> | >
> | > Routing tables as reported by netstat -r:
> | > -----------------------------------------
> | > Internet:
> | > Destination        Gateway            Flags    Refs      Use  Netif
> | > Expire
> | > default            192.168.80.100     UGSc        0        0    vr0
> | > localhost          localhost          UH          0       72    lo0
> | > 192.168.80         link#1             UC          1        0    vr0
> | > 192.168.80.100     link#1             UHLW        1        0    vr0
> | >
> | > /etc/rc.conf contains the following lines, among others:
> | > -----------------------------------------
> | > hostname="blah.server.net"
> | > tcp_extensions="NO"
> | > log_in_vain="NO"
> | > tcp_keepalive="NO"
> | > network_interfaces="auto"
> | > ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1"
> | > ifconfig_vr0="inet 192.168.80.222 netmask 255.255.255.0"
> | > defaultrouter="192.168.80.100"
> | > gateway_enable="NO"
> | >
> | > I also tried adding " media auto" in the ifconfig_vr0 above, but it
> | > didn't help. Same scenario.
> | > There's no problem in the cables as I use this same port in
> | a Windows
> | > 2000 workstation.
> | >
> | > What am I missing?
> | >
> | > TIA,
> | >
> | > /Noor
> | >
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> |
> |
> |
> | --------------------------------------
> | "Hard Work Often Pays Off After Time,
> |  but Laziness Always Pays Off Now."
> |
> |
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