From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 13 18:37:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA10048 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 18:37:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from home.ifx.net (home.ifx.net [206.25.218.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA10038 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 18:37:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jemstone@ifx.net) Received: from ip94.ifx.net (ip94.ifx.net [206.25.218.94]) by home.ifx.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA26214; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 21:13:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ip94.ifx.net with Microsoft Mail id <01BCD81F.D1FC7420@ip94.ifx.net>; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 21:34:43 -0400 Message-ID: <01BCD81F.D1FC7420@ip94.ifx.net> From: "James E. Marker" To: "'Greg Lehey'" Cc: "FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: RE: No Ether.... Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 21:34:36 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk How do I turn off LINK2? I have no idea. Thanks... Jim! -----Original Message----- From: Greg Lehey [SMTP:grog@lemis.com] Sent: Sunday, October 12, 1997 11:19 PM To: Jim Marker Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No Ether.... On Sun, Oct 12, 1997 at 10:30:43PM +0100, Jim Marker wrote: > I have a Compaq Pent Pro 200 with 64 megs running FreeBSD 2.2.2. I just > added a LinkSys Etherfast 100Base-TX card to it. It is configured as > follows: > > de0: flags=c843 mtu 1500 > inet 192.168.1.4 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 > ether 00:40:05:36:b4:bf > > The hub sees the card and the card's leds say it is working at 10baseT > speed (which is what everything else is). > > The problem is that I can't get out to any other computers on my local > ethernet, and I can't ping to 192.168.1.4 from any other computer on the > local ethernet. I can of course ping 192.168.1.4 and localhost from > 192.168.1.4. > > What is the c843 after flags mean? All my other machines say 8843. It's LINK2. Is this maybe the problem? I've had a look at the man page and the source, but neither say what LINK2 does. Try turning it off and see if things work. Greg