Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 15:30:11 -0700 (PDT) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/20529: gigabit cards fail to link Message-ID: <200008102230.PAA62263@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/20529; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: billf@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/20529: gigabit cards fail to link Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 16:27:32 -0600 On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 15:10:09 -0700, billf@FreeBSD.ORG wrote: > >Description: > > We purchased one Netgear 620 and one 3COM 3c985B-SX and added them to a > test machine. I connected them to each other (properly crossed over, but tried > both ways just to be sure) and they didn't detect a link. I also tried a second > cable, just to make sure the fiber wasn't bad. > > Because I had two cisco 35xx switches in my office that I had previously linked > with the two fiber cables, I tried connecting the tigon cards to the cisco as > well with equal failure. Again, I matched the TX/RX appropriatly, but switched > them around as well just to be sure. > > As autodetect failed (no link lights were on in the back either), I attempted > also to manually force them into 1000baseSX, which worked, but the cards still > had no carrier. The firmware for Tigon boards isn't downloaded to the card until you ifconfig the card up. So you won't get a link without assigning an address or at the very least ifconfiging the card up. You'll proably want to put a 'sleep 5' or something like that in the rc files after the boards are ifconfig'ed, to give the firmware time to boot up and detect a link. [ ... ] > ti0: <Netgear GA620 1000baseSX Gigabit Ethernet> mem 0xfe104000-0xfe107fff irq 22 at device 12.0 on pci0 > ti0: Ethernet address: 00:a0:cc:73:36:2b > ti1: <3Com 3c985-SX Gigabit Ethernet> mem 0xfe100000-0xfe103fff irq 17 at device 14.0 on pci0 > ti1: Ethernet address: 00:60:08:f6:a5:7a [ ... ] > ti0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > ether 00:a0:cc:73:36:2b > media: autoselect status: no carrier > supported media: autoselect 1000baseSX <full-duplex> 1000baseSX > ti1: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > ether 00:60:08:f6:a5:7a > media: autoselect status: no carrier > supported media: autoselect 1000baseSX <full-duplex> 1000baseSX Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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