Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:06:09 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Marius_N=FCnnerich?= <marius@nuenneri.ch> To: pyunyh@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Milan Obuch <freebsd-stable@dino.sk> Subject: Re: ale0 gets no carrier Message-ID: <b649e5e0910230306l44d7fabfjbad3b21baff590a0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20091022193821.GB1116@michelle.cdnetworks.com> References: <b649e5e0910221122l7c67fe8ei2fcce742fea5753c@mail.gmail.com> <200910221905.n9MJ5dsO063534@lava.sentex.ca> <200910222118.16927.freebsd-stable@dino.sk> <20091022193821.GB1116@michelle.cdnetworks.com>
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On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 21:38, Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. Ok, sounds plausible. It's just that every other nic I have had worked the other way.
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