From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 13 01:44:49 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8A8116A4CE for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 01:44:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailgw.servicefactory.se (mailgw.servicefactory.se [192.71.33.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0E5843D1D for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 01:44:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from xfree@bulow.mine.nu) Received: from ark.servicefactory.se (ark.servicefactory.se [192.71.33.5]) i1D9iiw00667; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:44:44 +0100 (CET) Received: from bulow.mine.nu (ark.servicefactory.se [192.71.33.5]) by ark.servicefactory.se (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i1D9gamP008223; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:42:37 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from xfree@bulow.mine.nu) Message-ID: <402C9C8A.50203@bulow.mine.nu> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:44:42 +0100 From: Jonas Bulow User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031218 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu Subject: ifconfig rl0 does not report status on FreeBSD-4.9 X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 09:44:50 -0000 Hi, The rl driver does not report it's link status on FreeBSD 4.9, at least not when using ifconfig. The chip is a Realtek 8139C+. I could not find anything about it in the archives. Any hints? # ifconfig rl0 rl0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 192.168.2.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255 ether 00:90:fb:04:5e:78 media: Ethernet autoselect (none) # ping -c 1 192.168.2.1 PING 192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.1): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.514 ms --- 192.168.2.1 ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.514/0.514/0.514/0.000 ms From dmesg: rl0: port 0xdc00-0xdcff mem 0xe7000000-0xe70000ff irq 12 at device 9.0 on pci0 rl0: Ethernet address: 00:90:fb:04:5e:78 miibus0: on rl0 rlphy0: on miibus0 rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto /j