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Date:      Sat, 11 Jan 2003 13:13:45 -0500
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        Nikolaj Farrell <nikk@home.se>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Problems w NIC
Message-ID:  <3E205ED9.7000504@potentialtech.com>
References:  <001701c2b987$9fdf72e0$0100a8c0@athlon> <1042300066.51041.227.camel@localhost> <002a01c2b989$f2099e90$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <000b01c2b98a$df9981c0$0100a8c0@athlon> <1042301568.51041.233.camel@localhost> <001201c2b98e$063311e0$0100a8c0@athlon> <1042303096.51041.237.camel@localhost> <000301c2b993$55e70610$0100a8c0@athlon> <20030111171152.GH25529@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> <001b01c2b995$0dbf6d30$0100a8c0@athlon> <20030111173058.GI25529@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> <000301c2b99a$65c6ba60$0100a8c0@athlon>

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Nikolaj Farrell wrote:
>>Yes, right.  Sorry, I somehow missed that point in the original post!
>>When you ping, do you see any activity at all on your hub/switch?  I
>>suppose that this would minimally let you know that the card is
>>transmittig something.
> 
> No, I have a small light on the hub that says "packet". This packet-light
> blinks when I try to ping the troublesome computer, but remains off when
> trying to ping from this computer. I am thinking perhaps driver problems?

Could well be.  You say that it works fine under another OS? What other OS?
What, also, is the make/model of the NIC?

Check ifconfig and compare the media line to the actual capibilities of the
system.  If it's not negiotiating properly (could a driver cause that?) you
might be able to get it working by manually specifying the media type in
an ifconfig command.

I'm grasping at straws here, but hopefully it will be helpful.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com


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