From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 29 17:55: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (skynet.ctr.columbia.edu [128.59.64.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B76C115651 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 17:54:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu) Received: (from wpaul@localhost) by skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) id UAA03451; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 20:58:51 -0400 From: Bill Paul Message-Id: <199909300058.UAA03451@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Subject: Re: Is the wb driver broken? To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 20:58:50 -0400 (EDT) Cc: current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "John Polstra" at Sep 29, 99 05:45:46 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1869 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, John Polstra had to walk into mine and say: > >> cvsup-master# ifconfig wb0 inet 204.216.27.25 netmask 255.255.255.240 > >> media 100baseTX mediaopt half-duplex > >> ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA: Device not configured > > > > You don't need to explicitly specify mediaopt half-duplex anymore. > > Specifying media 100baseTX without mediaopt full-duplex implies > > half-duplex. Leave off the mediaopt half-duplex part and it will work. > > OK, I did that and it made the SIOCSIFMEDIA message go away. But > now it's not showing carrier: > > Doing initial network setup: hostname domain. > wb0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > inet 204.216.27.25 netmask 0xfffffff0 broadcast 204.216.27.31 > ether 00:00:e8:18:5b:1d > media: 100baseTX status: no carrier > supported media: autoselect 100baseTX 100baseTX 10baseT/UTP 10baseT/UTP none > > Any other ideas? Is there any reason why you're not letting it autodetect (which is what it does by default, or with media autoselect). Make sure it's plugged in, make sure the link light is lit. Try to ping somebody on the network (or run tcpdump on the interface). You can't just sit there and look at it: you have to experiment. -Bill -- ============================================================================= -Bill Paul (212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City ============================================================================= "It is not I who am crazy; it is I who am mad!" - Ren Hoek, "Space Madness" ============================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message