From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 29 3:36:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46B3D37B57C for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 03:36:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net) Received: from joshpaet (hutch-261.hutchtel.net [206.10.67.189]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id FAA09529; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 05:36:22 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <001301bff949$8543b8c0$767afea9@joshpaet> From: "Josh Paetzel" To: , Subject: Re: nic woes Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 05:41:14 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----Original Message----- From: thursday@altavista.net To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Friday, July 28, 2000 10:59 PM Subject: nic woes >I am slowly being driven insane. > >I have a unix machine with what I thought was a dead nic. One day it worked, the next it didn't. Today, I brought home a new (to me) nic, popped it into the machine, rebooted, configured the new nic, and voila, nothing. > What do you mean by "voila, nothing"? >OK, I figures, it's a problem with the OS. I want to upgrade to FreeBSD 4.1 anyway, so I install the new hard drive I got, run the boot floppies, and get set for a cool net install, and...nothing. Are you saying that this is a machine that was networking properly and suddenly it wasn't, and you think that it is an OS problem? > >The OS is detecting the nic, and configures it properly. From the console I can ping its IP address (192.168.1.4) AND 127.0.0.1 and localhost, so...what's the problem? > >Is it the cable? No. I tried 3 different cables. BUT...the light for the port I'm plugged into on my hub is not coming on. OK...try different ports, no luck. > >Where could the problem lie? There are no other machines on my net with the same IP address; I even tried others in the 192.168.1 range. > Sounds like the card is set to full duplex or you are mixing /10 and /100 cards or something like that. I think that you can eliminate the hub and the cable as possible causes. This leaves it to be either the NIC or some kind of configuration issue. >Is the hub bad? Is it the machine? It's an 8-port hub and works fine for the other 4 machines connected to it. > >Am I missing something? Can you give me some hip pointers? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message