Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:15:51 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Marius_N=FCnnerich?= <marius@nuenneri.ch> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ale0 gets no carrier Message-ID: <b649e5e0910221215i6814d9e7h12b151e53a6b121e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200910221905.n9MJ5dsO063534@lava.sentex.ca> References: <b649e5e0910221122l7c67fe8ei2fcce742fea5753c@mail.gmail.com> <200910221905.n9MJ5dsO063534@lava.sentex.ca>
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On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 21:05, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> wrote: > 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 Wow! Good idea, that did work! Thanks Marius
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