Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 17:31:42 -0500 From: Damien Tougas <damien@tougas.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Detected Ethernet Cards Fail To Configure At Boot Message-ID: <3d5c9dd20d152e8bfaf59cd6da719a2d@tougas.net>
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Hello, I am running a server with 5.3-RELEASE. I have 3 3COM 905 ethernet cards (xl0, xl1, and xl2). I am getting this bizarre problem where the cards are detected during the boot process: xl0: <3Com 3c905-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xb000-0xb03f irq 12 at device 10.0 on pci0 miibus0: <MII bus> on xl0 nsphy0: <DP83840 10/100 media interface> on miibus0 nsphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto xl0: Ethernet address: 00:60:97:d0:34:1d xl1: <3Com 3c905-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xa800-0xa83f irq 10 at device 11.0 on pci0 miibus1: <MII bus> on xl1 nsphy1: <DP83840 10/100 media interface> on miibus1 nsphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto xl1: Ethernet address: 00:60:08:17:24:df xl2: <3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xa400-0xa47f mem 0xe4000000-0xe400007f irq 11 at device 12.0 on pci0 miibus2: <MII bus> on xl2 ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus2 ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto xl2: Ethernet address: 00:04:75:8f:89:5f but their configuration fails. I don't get any error messages, its almost as if they don't exist. One of the interfaces is configured to have DHCPD running on it, but DHCPD fails saying "xl2: not found". I log in after boot up, and when I do an ifconfig, all the interfaces are there, but not configured. To fix the problem, all I have to do is bring the machine down to single user mode, then back up to multi-user mode and everything gets configured properly. Any ideas what may be causing this? -- Damien Tougas
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