From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 1 23:58:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A78837B400 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 23:58:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net (sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net [65.242.152.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E73E443E6E for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 23:58:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpb@sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net) Received: by sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1FC23107A3; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 02:58:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 02:58:08 -0400 From: Jim Brown To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Remove NIC, problems Message-ID: <20020902065808.GA91908@sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3D723FB9.20564.3F3DAA33@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D723FB9.20564.3F3DAA33@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Corey Snow [2002-09-01 19:30]: > Hi all- I'm running FreeBSD-4.6.2-RELEASE, and have a problem. This > system had 3 NICs in it- xl0, ed0, dc0. I removed the one using xl0- > that's a 3Com 3C905-TX. The NIC was never used, as I had planned on > it being used for a project that never got off the ground. Now I have > another use for it and wanted to get it out of there. > > When I restart after removing the NIC, everything seems to go OK, > except that the console hangs on the line: > > Local package initilization: apache mysqld > > rc.conf does not try to initialize that NIC or set any interface > parameters on it. > Can you post your /etc/rc.conf, /etc/resolv.conf and the results of 'netstat -rn'? Hanging during startup is often caused by some program trying to do a DNS lookup (usually sendmail). > And just sits there. The XFree86 desktop comes up, but won't accept > keyboard input, and I can't switch to a text-mode console. The only > way to access the machine is via ssh, which, ironically enough, works > dandy. Doing a top in my ssh session showed that X was eating about > 98% of the CPU, so I killed it. > > So, right now I'm rebuilding my kernel without the xl0 driver, but I > wondered if I did anything else wrong, and if so, how do I correct > this? > > Thanks for any pointers and/or help. > > Regards, > > Corey Snow > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message