From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Aug 10 16:49:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5708137B6EC for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 16:49:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billf@jade.chc-chimes.com) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 5D3C21C5C; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 19:49:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 19:49:23 -0400 From: Bill Fumerola To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/20529: gigabit cards fail to link Message-ID: <20000810194923.T95620@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: <200008102230.PAA62263@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200008102230.PAA62263@freefall.freebsd.org>; from ken@kdm.org on Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 03:30:11PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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... -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect, BOFH / Chimes, Inc. billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message