Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:18:15 +0200 From: Milan Obuch <freebsd-stable@dino.sk> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ale0 gets no carrier Message-ID: <200910222118.16927.freebsd-stable@dino.sk> In-Reply-To: <200910221905.n9MJ5dsO063534@lava.sentex.ca> References: <b649e5e0910221122l7c67fe8ei2fcce742fea5753c@mail.gmail.com> <200910221905.n9MJ5dsO063534@lava.sentex.ca>
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On Thursday 22 October 2009 21:05:39 Mike Tancsa 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
>
In my case
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
(exactly the same, as I can see) when configuring interface manually, I need
to do 'ifconfig ale0 up' before I can successfully acquire IP with 'dhclient
ale0'. Everything works normally with 'ifconfig_ale0="DHCP"' line
in /etc/rc.conf.
Regards,
Milan
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