Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:49:18 +0200 From: Martin Sugioarto <nakal@web.de> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> Cc: Markus Vervier <markus@vervier.info>, Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com> Subject: Re: em(4) on FreeBSD is sometimes annoying Message-ID: <1267889400@web.de>
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> For what it's worth, I have a T60 that dual boots 6.3-R/amd64 and 7.0-R/= i386=20 > and neither install has this problem. I can cold boot it with the NIC=20 > unplugged, plug in a cable, I get a link light and ifconfig em0 goes to=20 > active, dhclient em0 gets an IP successfully. >=20 Did you try to run /etc/rc.d/netif start after you've booted your laptop u= nplugged=3F Try to do that, THEN connect the cable. The problem appears ONLY in this situation. And it's quite common, because= you often use your laptop with wireless network and suddenly you decide to connect i= t to wired network without having to switch the laptop off. My NIC is in such a state that I am forced to switch it off, or else I don= 't get link signal. I don't think it's a BIOS firmware problem (I have tried every update). I can remember that Linux had this issues, too a while ago. It works there= now, but FreeBSD is still the same. Please read the steps how I cause this situ= ation. It appears ONLY when you do it like I described it. I've seen that people first boot with plugged in cable and start to play w= ith dhclient. Both is wrong. Correct steps to reproduce is: You have to start with unhooked interface AND the line ifconfig=5Fre0=3D"DHCP"= in /etc/rc.conf. Then wait until you can login and try to attach the cable. -- Martin =5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F EINE F=DCR ALLE: die kostenlose WEB.DE-Plattform f=FCr Freunde und Deine Homepage mit eigenem Namen. Jetzt starten! http://unddu.de/=3Fkid=3Dkid@mf2
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