Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 20:20:07 -0500 From: chris@tourneyland.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Is my NIC card dead? Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990928202007.008bc100@mail.9netave.net>
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Now this is annoying . . . A friend of mine brought his computer over, and plugged it into my network here (taking the cable out of the back of my FreeBSD machine while it was running, and plugging it into his). Now that computer can't ping out to local machines or do anything. It's not the cable, since it still works in my friend machine. So here are my questions . . . 1) Is pulling the cable out of the card while it was running a risky operation? 2) I just reinstalled FreeBSD on that computer, and though it was an FTP install (so obviously the card worked then), I'm not sure I've tried to anything with it since, so maybe there's a config problem. That doesn't make much sense to me, but is it possible? And how could I make sure? 3) The network card is old, and if I replace it I'd be replacing it with a different card. I've never configured any hardware with FreeBSD (I've just let the install program do it). Is there anything special I have to do to config it? (Actually never mind that question - I'm sure there's something in the Handbook to cover it). Thanks! Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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