From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 6 06:36:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA25073 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 06:36:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from news.IAEhv.nl (root@news.IAEhv.nl [194.151.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id GAA25064 for ; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 06:36:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@bowtie.nl) Received: from LOCAL (uucp@localhost) by news.IAEhv.nl (8.6.13/1.63) with IAEhv.nl; pid 27219 on Mon, 6 Apr 1998 13:34:51 GMT; id NAA27219 efrom: marc@bowtie.nl; eto: UNKNOWN Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bowtie.nl (8.8.2/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA15192; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 15:33:42 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199804061333.PAA15192@bowtie.nl> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Andrzej Bialecki Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: de problem In-reply-to: abial's message of Mon, 06 Apr 1998 10:19:36 +0200. Reply-to: marc@bowtie.nl Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 15:33:41 +0200 From: Marc van Kempen Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Joe McGuckin wrote: > > > > > If I unplug the ethernet cable form the DE card in my machine, the > > interface goes dead and stays dead - even after the cable has been plugged > > back in. > > > > I've seen this with BAY and Kingston de cards. > > If you're running version which supports 'media' flags to the interface, > then manually run ifconfig to select the proper media (de driver tries > autoselecting other media in case of link failure, and doesn't autosense > when the proper link goes up again). If not, try doing ifconfig de0 down, > then up - at least this helps in my case... > Hi, How do I tell which version I have, and if I have the right version how do I tell it to use the proper media? Thanks, Marc. ---------------------------------------------------- Marc van Kempen BowTie Technology Email: marc@bowtie.nl WWW & Databases tel. +31 40 2 43 20 65 fax. +31 40 2 44 21 86 http://www.bowtie.nl ---------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message