Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 01:42:29 -0700 (MST) From: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> To: Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: de driver Message-ID: <199711030842.BAA20209@obie.softweyr.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <199711020925.LAA01948@silver.sms.fi> References: <199711020925.LAA01948@silver.sms.fi>
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Petri Helenius writes:
> I pulled the cable from a SMC de0 card and put it back on. All link
> lights, etc came nicely back on but the OS thought that:
> [...]
> At the failure it logged:
> de0: link down: cable problem?
Yeah, silly isn't it? You can just 'ifconfig de0 up' to get it back.
This really bit my using FreeBSD for a test station, until I switched
from using a crossover cable to a hub and two cables; we change the
unit the FreeBSD machine is connected to every 96 seconds. ;^)
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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