From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 29 8:52:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rmx452-mta.mail.com (rmx452-mta.mail.com [165.251.48.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE90E37B967 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 08:52:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thursday@altavista.net) Received: from weba6.iname.net (weba6.iname.net [165.251.4.16]) by rmx452-mta.mail.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA04461; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 11:52:30 -0400 (EDT) From: thursday@altavista.net Received: (from root@localhost) by weba6.iname.net (8.9.1a/8.9.2.Alpha2) id LAA14688; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 11:52:25 -0400 (EDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00072911522569.26984@weba6.iname.net> Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 11:52:25 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: Text/Plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: jpaetzel@hutchtel.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: re: nic woes Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for your reply! >What do you mean by "voila, nothing"? Sorry; I mean I get the same behavior as before. I can ping its ip address, and 127.0.0.1, but I can't get out on my local network. >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? One day the machine was working properly. The next day, it had dropped off the network. I hadn't done anything to its configuration. I had thought it was due to the nic being bad. I did back out my custom kernel and reinstall GENERIC, with no change (the machine still doesn't come up on the network). >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. the old nic--the one I thought was dead--was just a /10. All the cards in all my machines here are /10s except for in my gateway machine which has a /100 going to my dsl modem. But...I'm not having any problems with any other machines. So far, I've tried three nics (one that I know for sure is good) in the different available pci slots in the machine. A friend of mine thinks it's a bad motherboard, but before I start salvaging hardware from the machine, I want to be sure.re. Thanks for all your help or any ideas... ---------------------------------------------------------------- Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message