From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 14 17:04:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA28123 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 17:04:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from home.ifx.net (home.ifx.net [206.25.218.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA28096 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 17:04:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jemstone@ifx.net) Received: from ip106.ifx.net (ip106.ifx.net [206.25.218.106]) by home.ifx.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA14916; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 19:41:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ip106.ifx.net with Microsoft Mail id <01BCD8DC.14DC06E0@ip106.ifx.net>; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 20:02:21 -0400 Message-ID: <01BCD8DC.14DC06E0@ip106.ifx.net> From: "James E. Marker" To: "'Greg Lehey'" Cc: "FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: RE: No Ether.... Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 20:00:33 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id RAA28117 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Fixed it! When I turn off "ifconfig de0 -link2" the link2 I get a message that says enableing 10baseT port, and when I turn it back on "ifconfig de0 link2" I get a message that says enableing 100BaseTX port. Everything works good now. Thanks!! Jim... -----Original Message----- From: Greg Lehey [SMTP:grog@lemis.com] Sent: Monday, October 13, 1997 9:40 PM To: James E. Marker Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No Ether.... On Mon, Oct 13, 1997 at 09:34:36PM -0400, James E. Marker wrote: > On Sun, Oct 12, 1997 at 10:30:43PM +0100, Jim Marker wrote: >> I have a Compaq Pent Pro 200 with 64 megs running FreeBSD 2.2.2. I just >> added a LinkSys Etherfast 100Base-TX card to it. It is configured as >> follows: >> >> de0: flags=c843 mtu 1500 >> inet 192.168.1.4 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 >> ether 00:40:05:36:b4:bf >> >> The hub sees the card and the card's leds say it is working at 10baseT >> speed (which is what everything else is). >> >> The problem is that I can't get out to any other computers on my local >> ethernet, and I can't ping to 192.168.1.4 from any other computer on the >> local ethernet. I can of course ping 192.168.1.4 and localhost from >> 192.168.1.4. >> >> What is the c843 after flags mean? All my other machines say 8843. > > It's LINK2. Is this maybe the problem? I've had a look at the man > page and the source, but neither say what LINK2 does. Try turning it > off and see if things work. > How do I turn off LINK2? I have no idea. # ifconfig de0 -link2 The - is turn off. Without it, you turn it on. Greg