Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 17:49:01 +0200 From: Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> To: "Steiger, N. Wilson, (GS-12E)(TRNG) ATG WESTPAC" <steigerw@atgwp.navy.mil> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 3c905b-tx not working on fresh install of FreeBSD 5.0 Message-ID: <20030908154901.GC29046@dds.nl> In-Reply-To: <E02BB1E9B873D711ABF60008C7DFB2691760BD@exchangesvr.atgwp.navy.mil> References: <E02BB1E9B873D711ABF60008C7DFB2691760BD@exchangesvr.atgwp.navy.mil>
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On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 03:58:13PM +0900, Steiger, N. Wilson, (GS-12E)(TRNG) ATG WESTPAC wrote: > To all: > > I have just installed FreeBSD 5.0 on a Pent. 200 MMX w/192 MB RAM and 3-8 GB > HDs (SCSI-using AHA-2940U). My NIC is a 3c905b-tx. The motherboard is set > to non-plug-and-play. While booting the NIC shows link on my hub, but no > activity (duh), but as soon as the kernel sends configuration parameters to > the NIC it goes offline...no link lights or anything. I know the NIC works > fine as I was using it with Win98SE just minutes before loading FreeBSD 5.0. > I use the NICs config prog to check all the settings and they all appear to > be fine. This is only my fourth install of FreeBSD so I am quite the > novice, but I have never ran in to an issue with the NIC doing this > before... > > The NIC does state (hw-loopback) in ifconfig, but I can not find a way to > get this changed. I have tried to set the mediaopt setting to 100baseTX or > even 10baseT/UTP, but neither fix the issue. "ifconfig" sees the card fine > before I send the IP settings to the NIC, but once I set the IP the link > lights disappear. The ifconfig command still shows my card, but I can't > ping outside the box. I can ping the IP that I set to the NIC and the local > loopback. > FreeBSD 5.x isn't labed stable yet. Since 5.0 is the first version of the brance it still has a high change that one can run in to some bugs. Your best change of solving this is to install another version of FreeBSD or update (if you can). I also experianced this with 3c905C-TX on the 4.4. I solved this by installing 4.5. -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/
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