From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 4 23:46:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CB9A16A4CE for ; Sun, 4 Jul 2004 23:46:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.freeode.co.uk (freeode.co.uk [213.162.123.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3E5743D39 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 2004 23:46:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from spam-trap@freeode.co.uk) Received: from lexx (lexx.freeode.co.uk [10.253.253.2]) by mail.freeode.co.uk (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i64NkSN5035736; Mon, 5 Jul 2004 00:46:28 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from spam-trap@freeode.co.uk) From: John Murphy To: Nikhil Kale Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2004 00:46:28 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20040704182239.50311.qmail@web25010.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040704182239.50311.qmail@web25010.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cant bring up network interface X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: sub01@freeode.co.uk List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 23:46:30 -0000 Nikhil Kale wrote: >Hello, >I dont think the problem is related to releasing the DHCP lease >because I have Windows XP, SuSE linux and now FreeBSD installed >on the computer. I havent had any problem with Windows/Linux. Perhaps not, but I think it's related to DHCP. Do you have a lease in /var/db/dhclient.leases? If not - have you perhaps enabled firewall functionality which could block 255.255.255.255? > Here's what I get in dmesg for my network interface: >------------------------------------------------------------------------= ----------------------------------- > >sis0: port 0x8c00-0x8cff mem = 0xd0008000-0xd0008fff irq 11 at device 18.0 on pci0 > >sis0: Silicon Revision: DP83816A > >sis0: Ethernet address: 00:0d:9d:43:e5:b7 > >miibus0: on sis0 > >sis0: watchdog timeout Yep, all looks ok there: I have 3 of those all working fine. (5.2.1) Haven't seen 'watchdog timeout' errors though. > As soon as this is logged while booting the Ethernet LED on my = broadband modem goes OFF.=20 I've never found an LED state particularly informative. Could you make your line length ~76. The google archive seems to quote long lines verbatim, causing horizontal scrolling :( >I may be completely wrong, but I think some wrong module is getting >loaded, which is causing this problem. Can you point out how I can >debug more, and get this solved??? You could use parameters from a SuSe or XP lease to manually config the BSD installation. And then you could test connectivity to the ISP DHCP server. I'm not sure how to test the (main) broadcast address though and that's the one which is used (magically ;)) when an interface has no clue (previous lease) to consult. --=20 John.