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Date:      Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:33:45 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To:        chris@tourneyland.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Is my NIC card dead? 
Message-ID:  <1205.938601225@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 Sep 1999 20:20:07 EST." <3.0.6.32.19990928202007.008bc100@mail.9netave.net> 

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On Tue, 28 Sep 1999 20:20:07 EST, chris@tourneyland.com wrote:

> 1) Is pulling the cable out of the card while it was running a risky
> operation?

Depends -- I've had bad experiences doing this with coaxial cables.
It's never caused a problem for me with UTP cables.

> 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.

It'll be easier for us to see once you've shown us what your config is
at the moment. :-)

What do you see when you do this:

	ifconfig -a

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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