Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:38:21 -0700 From: Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com> To: Milan Obuch <freebsd-stable@dino.sk> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ale0 gets no carrier Message-ID: <20091022193821.GB1116@michelle.cdnetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <200910222118.16927.freebsd-stable@dino.sk> References: <b649e5e0910221122l7c67fe8ei2fcce742fea5753c@mail.gmail.com> <200910221905.n9MJ5dsO063534@lava.sentex.ca> <200910222118.16927.freebsd-stable@dino.sk>
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On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 09:18:15PM +0200, Milan Obuch wrote: > On Thursday 22 October 2009 21:05:39 Mike Tancsa wrote: > > At 02:22 PM 10/22/2009, Marius N?nnerich 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. > This is intended behavior as establishing a link requires negotiation with link-partner and the link state could be changed after the negotiation. So showing (fake/incorrect) link state before UPing the interface wouldn't be correct behavior.
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