Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:05:39 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Marius =?iso-8859-1?Q?N=FCnnerich?= <marius@nuenneri.ch>, FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ale0 gets no carrier Message-ID: <200910221905.n9MJ5dsO063534@lava.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <b649e5e0910221122l7c67fe8ei2fcce742fea5753c@mail.gmail.com > References: <b649e5e0910221122l7c67fe8ei2fcce742fea5753c@mail.gmail.com>
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At 02:22 PM 10/22/2009, Marius Nünnerich wrote:
>Hi Pyun, all,
>
>today I installed FreeBSD 8-STABLE r198366 on a new Box. It has a Atheros nic:
>ale0@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x831c1043 chip=0x10261969
>rev=0xb0 hdr=0x00
> vendor = 'Attansic (Now owned by Atheros)'
> device = 'PCI-E ETHERNET CONTROLLER (AR8121/AR8113 )'
> class = network
> subclass = ethernet
>
>ale0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>
>options=319a<TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC>
> ether 00:24:8c:a4:0a:b3
> media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
> status: no carrier
>
>The nic gets no carrier at all. I tried against two known-working nics
>with a cross-over cable and against a dsl-modem.
>Any idea what to try? Will happily test patches.
Did you try and give it an IP address so that its
"UP" ? Some nics dont seem to have carrier until
you put it in UP state with an IP. Try something simple like
ifconfig ale0 192.168.255.254/30
---Mike
> - Marius
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