From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Nov 3 00:32:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA17257 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 00:32:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from obie.softweyr.ml.org ([199.104.124.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA17250 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 00:32:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@xmission.com) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.ml.org (8.7.5/8.6.12) id BAA20209; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 01:42:29 -0700 (MST) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 01:42:29 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199711030842.BAA20209@obie.softweyr.ml.org> From: Wes Peters To: Petri Helenius CC: chat@freebsd.org Subject: de driver In-Reply-To: <199711020925.LAA01948@silver.sms.fi> References: <199711020925.LAA01948@silver.sms.fi> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com