From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 26 21:06:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA11408 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 21:06:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA11189 for ; Tue, 26 May 1998 21:05:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA29954; Tue, 26 May 1998 21:05:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 21:05:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Antuan Avdioukhine cc: FreeBSD Support Subject: Re: Adaptec Cogent Quartet network card In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 25 May 1998, Antuan Avdioukhine wrote: > Gentlemen, > Some starnge things happened when I installed Cogent Quartet card > under FreeBSD 2.2.6. This card provides four single-bridged > DEC21140A-based 10/100 TX adapters. After boot all adapters are detected > correctly and become devices de0 to de3. Now only de0 interface connected > to LAN, de1 to de3 are down-ed. But after boot driver reports "link cable > problem", ifconfig reported "no carrier". When I manually change media > from "autosence" to "10baseT/UTP" and then back to "autosence" -- links > restores after "ifconfig de0 up" command. Can anyone comment this > phenomenon? Working as advertised. I assume that there is nothing plugged into the Quartet card. I think it gives up after a while if it doesn't detect any connection at either 10mbit or 100mbit -- ifconfig down/up resets the autodetect sequence. If you're going to do this a lot fix the media type with ifconfig or the setup program. We have several of these cards and need to test them, but a Kingston card based on the same chip does the same thing. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message