From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 26 10:49:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FCBA16A4CE for ; Wed, 26 May 2004 10:49:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms-smtp-02-eri0.socal.rr.com (ms-smtp-02-qfe0.socal.rr.com [66.75.162.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5E5043D3F for ; Wed, 26 May 2004 10:45:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hoe-waa@hawaii.rr.com) Received: from ms-mss-01 ([10.10.4.10])i4QHiWXr010768 for ; Wed, 26 May 2004 10:44:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from socal.rr.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ms-mss-01.socal.rr.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HYC000CQ1A82I@ms-mss-01.socal.rr.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 26 May 2004 10:44:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.10.6.201] (Forwarded-For: [24.25.245.126]) by ms-mss-01.socal.rr.com (mshttpd); Wed, 26 May 2004 07:44:32 -1000 Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 07:44:32 -1000 From: hoe-waa@hawaii.rr.com To: Luke Kearney Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: iPlanet Messenger Express 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-language: en Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline X-Accept-Language: en Priority: normal X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine cc: Eric Crist cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ethernet card not coming up on reboot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: hoe-waa@hawaii.rr.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 17:49:32 -0000 Subject: Re: ethernet card not coming up on reboot > > On Tue, 25 May 2004 20:00:12 -1000 > hoe-waa@hawaii.rr.com spake thus: > > > Aloha Eric and Luke > > > > I am aware that sysinstall will append to rc.conf. > > I went ahead and deleted all of the appends and rebooted. > > The ethernet did not come up on reboot. I had to use > > sysinstall to get an ip. And yes, it did append to > > rc.conf again. > > > > I will look into setting a static ip but I would like > > to know why this is happening. I have 3 other boxes > > that have FreeBSD on them and they don't have this problem. > > > > Robert > > > > ----- Original Message ----- On Tuesday, May 25, 2004 8:15 pm Luke Kearney wrote: > When you used /stand/sysinstall again did you reboot to get the IP or > did you bring up the interface by hand? I am wondering if having only > one config line in rc.conf gives you no IP upon boot whether or not > having booted and go no address can you get one by using netstart > or not? > eg > > #sh /etc/netstart > > This should re-read your rc.conf file and execute the network related > cmds. After "sh /etc/netstart" I get : hw.bus.devctl_disable: 1-> 1 (then the lo0 printou) dhclient already running? (pid-221) and ifconfig -a unchanged. have to use sysinsstall. > > One more shot in the dark and believe me this is a shot in the > dark, try > changing the line in rc.conf to ifconfig_sk0="UP" and then through > rc.local run dhclient as a separate script. The net effect being that > you start the interface before trying to get an IP as a separate > process. I tried this but it didn't change anything...if I did it right? I edited rc.conf and changed the line [ifconfig_sk0="DHCP"] to [ifconfig_sk0="UP"] and created /usr/local/etc/rc.d/rc.local to read ifconfig_sk0="DHCP" When I did this I could never i initialize DHCP. Even sysinstall failed. as a side note, during boot, the sequence delays for over a minute during starting DHClient. It can't initialize sk0 but sysinstall can. Go figure? > > > Just out of curiousity, your other three machines that don't have this > problem, are they all identical to the machine that does? Somehow I > think they are probably all unique in which case we can continue to > focus on the machine at hand. You are absolutely right! My other boxes are all frankenputers. Robert > > HTH > > LukeK > > -- > Luke Kearney