From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 11 11: 4:59 2003 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 734CD37B401 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 11:04:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 693F143F3F for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 11:04:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([172.16.0.95]) by mail.adelphia.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h0BJ61Ag003704; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 14:06:02 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E205ED9.7000504@potentialtech.com> Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 13:13:45 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nikolaj Farrell Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Problems w NIC 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message