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Date:      Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:59:43 -0500
From:      Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
To:        sergio lenzi <lenzi@k1.com.br>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RTL8111C driver for FBSD7
Message-ID:  <4DB0903D4C3581F8AE40811B@utd65257.utdallas.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1208524002.2443.4.camel@localhost>
References:  <1208499344.7272.7.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <480849B7.1070400@otenet.gr> <1208504809.7272.13.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <480856E0.3010203@otenet.gr> <1208516833.7272.26.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <4808884F.1030606@otenet.gr> <1208524002.2443.4.camel@localhost>

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--On Friday, April 18, 2008 10:06:42 -0300 sergio lenzi <lenzi@k1.com.br> wrote:

> Hello...
>
> I had another NIC from marvell (I did not remember if it was a nve or nfe)
> that refuses to work until I put the word "UP"  in the ifconfig command
>
> in /etc/rc.conf.....
>
> ifconfig_xx0="up DHCP"
>
> ==================================================
> may be is it not the case????

If you want your NIC to come up on boot, you need to tell the OS that.

# grep ifconfig /etc/rc.conf
ifconfig_em0="DHCP"

For yours:
ifconfig_xx0="DHCP" should work fine.

-- 
Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/




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