I haven't seen anything on this, but have just run into it when trying
to set up a machine.

We have a FreeBSD workstation that retrieves its IP address via DHCP.
Normally this works all fine and dandy, but if the card autoselects
the media to the wrong type, then there's no DHCP.  The only way I've
found around this is to create a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d that
does the ifconfig and dhclient itself.

I've tried setting to ifconfig_fxp0 lines in /etc/rc.conf, the first
for the media selection and the second for the DHCP instruction, but
that didn't work -- the card stayed in autoselect.

The only thing I haven't tried is "DHCP media <media> mediaopt <opt>",
but I'm not sure this will work.  Is there any way to manually set the
NIC media, while retreiving the IP address via DHCP?

 - Damian


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