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From: Mike Sturdee <sturdee@mikesweb.com>
To: Noor Dawod <noor@comrax.com>
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Subject: Re: NIC has IP, but has "no carrier"
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Do you have link light on the NIC and switch? Sounds like a bad cable.

-Mike


On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Noor Dawod wrote:

> Hello,
>
> My computer is not connecting to the local network with the following
> configuration:
>
> dmesg.boot contains the following lines:
> -----------------------------------------
> vr0: <VIA VT3043 Rhine I 10/100BaseTX> port 0xec00-0xec7f mem
> 0xfeafbc00-0xfeafbc7f irq 11 at device 12.0 on pci2
> vr0: Ethernet address: 00:40:05:a5:00:04
> miibus0: <MII bus> on vr0
> amphy0: <Am79C873 10/100 media interface> on miibus0
> amphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
>
> ifconfig -a reports the following after booting up:
> -----------------------------------------
> vr0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> 	inet 192.168.80.111 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.80.255
> 	ether 00:40:05:a5:00:04
> 	media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
> 	status: no carrier
> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
> 	inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
>
> Routing tables as reported by netstat -r:
> -----------------------------------------
> Internet:
> Destination        Gateway            Flags    Refs      Use  Netif
> Expire
> default            192.168.80.100     UGSc        0        0    vr0
> localhost          localhost          UH          0       72    lo0
> 192.168.80         link#1             UC          1        0    vr0
> 192.168.80.100     link#1             UHLW        1        0    vr0
>
> /etc/rc.conf contains the following lines, among others:
> -----------------------------------------
> hostname="blah.server.net"
> tcp_extensions="NO"
> log_in_vain="NO"
> tcp_keepalive="NO"
> network_interfaces="auto"
> ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1"
> ifconfig_vr0="inet 192.168.80.222 netmask 255.255.255.0"
> defaultrouter="192.168.80.100"
> gateway_enable="NO"
>
> I also tried adding " media auto" in the ifconfig_vr0 above, but it
> didn't help. Same scenario.
> There's no problem in the cables as I use this same port in a Windows
> 2000 workstation.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> TIA,
>
> /Noor
>
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