From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 8 00:01:26 2003 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 9C71516A4BF for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 00:01:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rnoc2.cnrfe.navy.mil (rnoc2.cnrfe.navy.mil [206.39.111.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A6E943F85 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 00:01:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steigerw@atgwp.navy.mil) Received: by rnoc2.cnrfe.navy.mil; id QAA00822; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 16:37:14 +0900 (JST) Received: from dnsmail2.cnrfe.navy.mil(163.251.224.84) by rnoc2.cnrfe.navy.mil via smap (V5.0) id xma029653; Mon, 8 Sep 03 16:36:26 +0900 Received: from exchangesvr.ATG_WESTPAC (exchangesvr.atgwp.navy.mil [163.251.226.28] (may be forged)) by dnsmail2.cnrfe.navy.mil (8.11.6/8.11.2) with ESMTP id h880twP18196 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 09:55:59 +0900 (JST) Received: by exchangesvr.atgwp.navy.mil with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 15:58:17 +0900 Message-ID: From: "Steiger, N. Wilson, (GS-12E)(TRNG) ATG WESTPAC" To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 15:58:13 +0900 Importance: high X-Priority: 1 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: 3c905b-tx not working on fresh install of FreeBSD 5.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 07:01:26 -0000 To all: I have just installed FreeBSD 5.0 on a Pent. 200 MMX w/192 MB RAM and 3-8 GB HDs (SCSI-using AHA-2940U). My NIC is a 3c905b-tx. The motherboard is set to non-plug-and-play. While booting the NIC shows link on my hub, but no activity (duh), but as soon as the kernel sends configuration parameters to the NIC it goes offline...no link lights or anything. I know the NIC works fine as I was using it with Win98SE just minutes before loading FreeBSD 5.0. I use the NICs config prog to check all the settings and they all appear to be fine. This is only my fourth install of FreeBSD so I am quite the novice, but I have never ran in to an issue with the NIC doing this before... The NIC does state (hw-loopback) in ifconfig, but I can not find a way to get this changed. I have tried to set the mediaopt setting to 100baseTX or even 10baseT/UTP, but neither fix the issue. "ifconfig" sees the card fine before I send the IP settings to the NIC, but once I set the IP the link lights disappear. The ifconfig command still shows my card, but I can't ping outside the box. I can ping the IP that I set to the NIC and the local loopback. Please help!! V/R, Wilson Steiger