Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 15:20:23 -0500 From: "Martin Gignac" <m_gignac@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Problem with recent Ethernet xl driver? Message-ID: <F112QkuHblIRKpg3pz200009c23@hotmail.com>
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Hi, I don't know if this is the correct list to post this, but I assume it is, so here goes: I installed a FreeBSD system from a 4.5-release ISO-burned CD on March 5th and set both Ethernet interfaces (xl0 and fxp0) on the system to DHCP. I rebooted the system and both interfaces got their dynamically-alloted addresses. I did some other configuration and rebooted again and everything still worked fine. I then performed a cvsup of the entire sources on the morning of that same day and performed a make world and a make kernel (still using GENERIC) on the entire system on the morning of March 6th. After I rebooted with the new kernel, I wasn't able to get a DHCP-assigned address on xl0 anymore. I commented out the ifconfig entries in /etc/rc.conf and rebooted the system. I then entered the 'dhclient xl0 fxp0' line manually. This is what I got: ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAADDR): File exists Mar 6 14:59:21 trash dhclient: xl0: not found Mar 6 14:59:21 trash dhclient: exiting I then tried rebooting the system and loaded 'kernel.GENERIC' instead of the current kernel. I was able to run dhclient on both interfaces without any problems. So it looks like the kernel I compiled with yesterday's sources refuses to perform the DHCP operation on xl0, for some reason. I don't know if this means anything to anybody, or if it should be investigated, but I just thought I should mention it. Thanks, -Martin _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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