Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 23:25:17 +0100 From: David Collins <davidcollins001@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ethernet card not working Message-ID: <1b30fd140906031525g7e2e2eafw2a4256800ab4a126@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906032104020.24247@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <1b30fd140906031136u577c15b1rdca015869491720f@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906032104020.24247@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On 03/06/2009, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: >> unplug either end and plug it into my ibook (OS X) the status changes >> to active and I can ping the other computer. From this I can see that >> both both freebsd computers have working ethernet cards and the cable >> works also, just not freebsd-freebsd. >> >> Does anyone have any ideas why this might be the case and how to fix it? >> > bad cable or not swapped at all. > > between 2 computers you have to make swapped cable on one side put green > pair in place of yellow, yellow in place of green, brown in place of blue > and blue in place of brown. > > If it's 10 or 100 Mbps ethernet blue&brown doesn't matter, only 2 pairs > are used. > The cable works find and so does the network card. I have it plugged into my ibook and am sshing across it - everything works fine and as it should when using freebsd to osx, just can't do the same from freebsd to freebsd.
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