Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 18:00:41 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is the wb driver broken? Message-ID: <XFMail.990929180041.jdp@polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <199909300058.UAA03451@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
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Bill Paul wrote: >> >> 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<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> 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 <full-duplex> 100baseTX 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 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). I inherited an /etc/rc.conf file that somebody else set up. I'll try letting it autodetect and see what happens. But ... after I sent off that last mail, it acquired the carrier after a small delay. I don't know why it didn't see it at first. > Make sure it's plugged in, make sure the link light is lit. Er, I happen to be 1000 miles away from the link light. Maybe if I squint real hard ... :-) Thanks for the help. I seem to be over the hump on the wb interface anyway. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up." -- Nora Ephron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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