Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 17:25:07 +0100 From: Steve Roome <steve@snuggly.demon.co.uk> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: PCMCIA card with wrong MAC-Address Message-ID: <20000828172507.A68994@snuggly.demon.co.uk>
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Hi, I've got a Trust 10/100Mb pccard, with an interesting problem. This is on FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE (I'm actually trying to upgrade to stable, which is why I put the netcard in...) I've got it installed, and set up, but the card/driver thinks that it's mac address is something other than it is. I can't find the correct (as identified by dos) mac address anywhere in the cards memory - obviously it should be there somewhere! If I run the diagnostic software under dos I am told it is 00:e0:98:34:d8:26, yet FreeBSD finds it as 1:d4:ff:3:0:20. I can ping and telnet from the laptop to other machines on the network, but can't go back the other way, the flashing lights on the connector happily flash away when I ping from the laptop, and I really can connect outbound, just not the other way round, it doesn't even show up with nmap or strobe. The only way to get the activity light to flash on the laptop is if from another machine on the network I do the following : arp -d <laptopaddress> ping <laptopaddress> Then the activity light flashes the first time, just once and then doesn't come back on - this I'm guessing, is because it responds to an arp-who-has or something, but with the wrong address, and therefore subsequent packets don't make it to the laptop. However, no matter how screwed up this is, I can actually connect from the laptop to anything else on the network, just not the other way round. Of course, it might not be a pccard problem at all, but it sure looks like one! Any help will be greatly appreciated! ( I've been through fairly obvious stuff : hosts.allow says all : all :allow ) Tia, Steve Roome P.S. Not subscribed to questions- so please don't just reply to the list as I won't see it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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