From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 20 17:07:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA24904 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 17:07:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA24862 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 17:07:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA24679; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 17:06:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 17:06:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Russ Panula cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: de1 "no carrier" message In-Reply-To: <35B3BDF1.9A6C92AE@mplspop1.mpls.uswest.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Russ Panula wrote: > After a recent reboot (new kernel) on a 2.2.6-STABLE box, my de1 card > started reporting "no carrier": > > de0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > inet 10.0.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.1.255 > ether 00:c0:6d:15:00:71 > media: 100baseTX status: active > de1: flags=c943 > mtu 1500 > inet 207.109.3.210 netmask -0xffffff00 broadcast 207.109.3.255 > ether 00:c0:6d:13:d0:44 > media: 100baseTX status: no carrier ^^^^^^^^^ Speed was misdetected .... > de0 is connected to a 100baseTX hub, ep0 is connected to a 10baseT hub, > and de1 is connected via a crossover cable to a Netspeed ADSL "modem". I suggest forcing the link speed using the `media' argument to ifconfig. The de driver and cards get very, very angry if you pull their cable out, and sometimes will misdetect the link speed. A command like ifconfig de1 inet x.y.z.q netmask a.b.c.d media 10BaseT/UTP should do it, assuming the NetSpeed is a 10mbit device. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message