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Subject: Re: ale0 gets no carrier
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On Thursday 22 October 2009 21:05:39 Mike Tancsa 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 Atheros
> > nic: ale0@pci0:2:0:0:        class=3D0x020000 card=3D0x831c1043
> > chip=3D0x10261969 rev=3D0xb0 hdr=3D0x00
> >     vendor     =3D 'Attansic (Now owned by Atheros)'
> >     device     =3D 'PCI-E ETHERNET CONTROLLER  (AR8121/AR8113 )'
> >     class      =3D network
> >     subclass   =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> 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=3D0x020000 card=3D0x831c1043 chip=3D0x1026196=
9=20
rev=3D0xb0 hdr=3D0x00
    vendor     =3D 'Attansic (Now owned by Atheros)'
    device     =3D 'PCI-E ETHERNET CONTROLLER  (AR8121/AR8113 )'
    class      =3D network
    subclass   =3D ethernet

(exactly the same, as I can see) when configuring interface manually, I nee=
d=20
to do 'ifconfig ale0 up' before I can successfully acquire IP with 'dhclien=
t=20
ale0'. Everything works normally with 'ifconfig_ale0=3D"DHCP"' line=20
in /etc/rc.conf.

Regards,
Milan