Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 20:57:28 -0700 From: Dana Baguley <dana.baguley@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 3C905B-TX problems on fresh install Message-ID: <961ed04605051720574a9697f9@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, I'm a FreeBSD Newbie. I've had some experience with Linux, particularly Gentoo. I'm running a computer that I've installed FreeBSD on behind a router that's connected to my DSL modem. The router provides DHCP for all the 3 computers on my home network. Everything works fine with the other computers and everything worked fine on this computer when I was running Gentoo on it. My NIC is a 3Com 3C905B-TX. My motherboard is a EPOX EP-3VBA. When I installed FreeBSD I wanted to use FTP, but the DHCP step didn't work so I installed from CD. Now whenever I boot up I get the error message "xl0: watchdog timeout" repeatedly when dhclient starts up, when sshd comes up, and occasionally after boot at seemingly random times. I've noticed when I get this error that my link light goes off for a little over a second. I can only ping the localhost. Also I get an error with the date, time, name of my computer, and "inetd[435]: ssh/tcp: bind: Address already in use" every ten minutes. netstat -rn shows 10.0.0.1 (the router) as the default gateway and 127.0.0.1 as the gateway for 10.0.0.100, the address assigned by the router. The correct MAC address for the router shows up as the gateway for 10.0.0.1. The computer shows up on the router's DHCP clients table. ifconfig -a gives me xl0: flags=3D8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 options=3D9<RXCUM,VLAN_MTU> inet6 fe80::210:5aff:fe09:f53e%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 10.0.0.100 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255 ether 00:10:5a:09:f5:3e media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)=20 status: no active plip0: flags=3D108810<POINTTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 lo0: flags=3D8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 I don't know what to do to get networking working on this computer. Any ideas? Thanks in advance for your help! Dana Baguley
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