On Fri, 5 May 2006, Jonathan Feally wrote: > Why whould you want to use that kernel option?
I was told it was broken without the option also. I was told that ifconfig said "no carrier" with the default GENERIC kernel (while it worked fine with CentOS). (Since it doesn't have network access and I am 1800 miles away, I can not easily check. I am relaying messages.) > I don't see that it is a requirement on the blade how-to. My guess is > you haven't specifically set the interface to a media speed and duplex > as the option indicates to me that the driver would not attempt auto > negotiation. If the option is not required - lose it - otherwise try > adding a media option to your ifconfig. Thanks. We'll give that a try. (I now recall that I had to do that with bge on some other hardware over a year ago.) Jeremy C. Reed _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"