From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 29 18: 1: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE62D15076 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 18:00:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA18646; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 18:00:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id SAA23780; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 18:00:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199909300058.UAA03451@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 18:00:41 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc. From: John Polstra To: Bill Paul Subject: Re: Is the wb driver broken? Cc: current@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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). 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