Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 10:56:52 +0200 (EET) From: Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi> To: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: de driver Message-ID: <199711030856.KAA01692@silver.sms.fi> In-Reply-To: <199711030842.BAA20209@obie.softweyr.ml.org> References: <199711020925.LAA01948@silver.sms.fi> <199711030842.BAA20209@obie.softweyr.ml.org>
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Wes Peters writes: > 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. ;^) > Yes, but I would lose the full-duplex if I would go for a hub and additionally would have to shell out the $$$ for a stack of hubs. Pete
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