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Subject: Re: ale0 gets no carrier
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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 N=FCnnerich wrote:
>>
>> Hi Pyun, all,
>>
>> today I installed FreeBSD 8-STABLE r198366 on a new Box. It has a Athero=
s
>> nic:
>> ale0@pci0:2:0:0: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0class=3D0x020000 card=3D0x831c1043 chip=
=3D0x10261969
>> rev=3D0xb0 hdr=3D0x00
>> =A0 =A0vendor =A0 =A0 =3D 'Attansic (Now owned by Atheros)'
>> =A0 =A0device =A0 =A0 =3D 'PCI-E ETHERNET CONTROLLER =A0(AR8121/AR8113 )=
'
>> =A0 =A0class =A0 =A0 =A0=3D network
>> =A0 =A0subclass =A0 =3D ethernet
>>
>> ale0: flags=3D8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>>
>>
>> options=3D319a<TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,WOL_MCAST=
,WOL_MAGIC>
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0ether 00:24:8c:a4:0a:b3
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0status: 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 s=
eem
> to have carrier until you put it in UP state with an IP. Try something
> simple like
> ifconfig ale0 192.168.255.254/30
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0---Mike

Wow! Good idea, that did work!

Thanks
Marius