Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 11:10:13 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "James E. Marker" <jemstone@ifx.net> Cc: "FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: No Ether.... Message-ID: <19971014111013.02215@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <01BCD81F.D1FC7420@ip94.ifx.net>; from James E. Marker on Mon, Oct 13, 1997 at 09:34:36PM -0400 References: <01BCD81F.D1FC7420@ip94.ifx.net>
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On Mon, Oct 13, 1997 at 09:34:36PM -0400, James E. Marker wrote: > On Sun, Oct 12, 1997 at 10:30:43PM +0100, Jim Marker wrote: >> I have a Compaq Pent Pro 200 with 64 megs running FreeBSD 2.2.2. I just >> added a LinkSys Etherfast 100Base-TX card to it. It is configured as >> follows: >> >> de0: flags=c843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 >> inet 192.168.1.4 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 >> ether 00:40:05:36:b4:bf >> >> The hub sees the card and the card's leds say it is working at 10baseT >> speed (which is what everything else is). >> >> The problem is that I can't get out to any other computers on my local >> ethernet, and I can't ping to 192.168.1.4 from any other computer on the >> local ethernet. I can of course ping 192.168.1.4 and localhost from >> 192.168.1.4. >> >> What is the c843 after flags mean? All my other machines say 8843. > > It's LINK2. Is this maybe the problem? I've had a look at the man > page and the source, but neither say what LINK2 does. Try turning it > off and see if things work. > How do I turn off LINK2? I have no idea. # ifconfig de0 -link2 The - is turn off. Without it, you turn it on. Greg
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