From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 13 11: 0:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 072FD37B403 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:00:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dg@root.com) Received: (from dg@localhost) by root.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f5DHpIJ73251; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 10:51:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dg) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 10:51:18 -0700 From: David Greenman To: Lanny Baron Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2nd nic kills first?? Message-ID: <20010613105118.D19893@nexus.root.com> References: <20010613130809.Y94324-100000@panda.FreeBSDsystems.COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010613130809.Y94324-100000@panda.FreeBSDsystems.COM>; from lnb@FreeBSDsystems.COM on Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 01:21:37PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Hello, >After installing a 2nd NIC (Intel Pro/100 S) and booting up, the OS sees >the 2nd NIC but it also states that media NONE status NO CARRIER for the >first NIC (fxp0). Doing an ifconfig fxp0 down and then ifconfig fxp0 inet >xx.xx.xx.xx with the correct netmask up, does not help. > >dmsg shows both NIC's as the same in terms of driver 10/100/100+ >Anyone ever experienced such a situation and know why it's doing this? Guess: you're using a L440GX motherboard or similar that probes some of the PCI slots before the onboard PCI, resulting in fxp0 becoming fxp1 when you plug in a PCI Pro/100 (which becomes the new fxp0)? -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message