Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 19:49:23 -0400 From: Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/20529: gigabit cards fail to link Message-ID: <20000810194923.T95620@jade.chc-chimes.com> In-Reply-To: <200008102230.PAA62263@freefall.freebsd.org>; from ken@kdm.org on Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 03:30:11PM -0700 References: <200008102230.PAA62263@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 03:30:11PM -0700, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
> The firmware for Tigon boards isn't downloaded to the card until you
> ifconfig the card up. So you won't get a link without assigning an address
> or at the very least ifconfiging the card up.
>
> You'll probably want to put a 'sleep 5' or something like that in the rc
> files after the boards are ifconfig'ed, to give the firmware time to boot
> up and detect a link.
Well I'll be damned. If I knew more mdoc I suppose I would add this to ti(4),
which I read in its entirety before filing this PR...
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Bill Fumerola - Network Architect, BOFH / Chimes, Inc.
billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org
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