From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 11 17:51:17 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 082F537B401 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 17:51:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from empire.explosive.mail.net (empire.explosive.mail.net [205.205.25.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 001BE43F43 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 17:51:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mykroft@explosive.mail.net) Received: (qmail 2398 invoked from network); 12 Jan 2003 01:49:59 -0000 Received: from ticking.explosive.mail.net (HELO ticking) (205.205.25.116) by empire.explosive.mail.net with SMTP; 12 Jan 2003 01:49:59 -0000 Message-ID: <044e01c2b9dd$13639700$7419cdcd@ticking> From: "Adam Maas" To: "Nikolaj Farrell" , Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" 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> <1042305860.51041.240.camel@localhost> <001801c2b999$95567000$0100a8c0@athlon> <1042310110.51041.250.camel@localhost> <002b01c2b9c3$56722e40$0100a8c0@athlon> <1042325630.51041.257.camel@localhost> <003701c2b9c4$db6e6950$0100a8c0@athlon> <1042328202.51041.268.camel@localhost> <00c301c2b9cd$71a44360$0100a8c0@athlon> <1042329896.51041.273.camel@localhost> <000a01c2b9cf$fb483f20$0100a8c0@athlon> <1042331043.51041.280.camel@localhost> <001001c2b9d3$9a0f57d0$0100a8c0@athlon> <1042332881.51041.287.camel@localhost> <002701c2b9d5$bc1376c0$0100a8c0@athlon> Subject: Re: Problems w NIC Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 20:51:08 -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 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 I did have a similar problem with 5.0rc2 and my 3cSOHO 100BaseTX NIC, but I had it coming up in state rather than any actual link state from Autodetect. My solution was to replace the NIC with a 10baseT NE2000-PCI cheapo, since the box in question was simply a firewall/router for 3Mbit DSL. --Adam ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nikolaj Farrell" To: Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 7:58 PM Subject: Re: Problems w NIC > > Okay.., I see that there's no firewall support in the kernel. Well., at > > the end I'd ask for you to try reloading the nic (ifconfig dc0 down / > > ifconfig dc0 up) to see if that makes any difference - maybe booting to > > other OS leaves the nic is some sort of state.., but that's grasping at > > straws.., but I seem to recall hearing at least one instance of this.., > > somewhere.., > > > > Regards, > > > > Stacey > > > > In your opinion, could it be worth buying a new network card? > > regards > /Nikolaj > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message