On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 09:18:15PM +0200, Milan Obuch wrote: > On Thursday 22 October 2009 21:05:39 Mike Tancsa wrote: > > At 02:22 PM 10/22/2009, Marius N?nnerich wrote: > > >Hi Pyun, all, > > > > > >today I installed FreeBSD 8-STABLE r198366 on a new Box. It has a Atheros > > > nic: a...@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x831c1043 > > > chip=0x10261969 rev=0xb0 hdr=0x00 > > > vendor = 'Attansic (Now owned by Atheros)' > > > device = 'PCI-E ETHERNET CONTROLLER (AR8121/AR8113 )' > > > class = network > > > subclass = ethernet > > > > > >ale0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 > > > > > >options=319a<TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,WOL_MCAST,WOL > > >_MAGIC> ether 00:24:8c:a4:0a:b3 > > > media: Ethernet autoselect (none) > > > status: no carrier > > > > > >The nic gets no carrier at all. I tried against two known-working nics > > >with a cross-over cable and against a dsl-modem. > > >Any idea what to try? Will happily test patches. > > > > Did you try and give it an IP address so that its > > "UP" ? Some nics dont seem to have carrier until > > you put it in UP state with an IP. Try something simple like > > ifconfig ale0 192.168.255.254/30 > > > > In my case > > a...@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x831c1043 chip=0x10261969 > rev=0xb0 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Attansic (Now owned by Atheros)' > device = 'PCI-E ETHERNET CONTROLLER (AR8121/AR8113 )' > class = network > subclass = ethernet > > (exactly the same, as I can see) when configuring interface manually, I need > to do 'ifconfig ale0 up' before I can successfully acquire IP with 'dhclient > ale0'. Everything works normally with 'ifconfig_ale0="DHCP"' line > in /etc/rc.conf. >
This is intended behavior as establishing a link requires negotiation with link-partner and the link state could be changed after the negotiation. So showing (fake/incorrect) link state before UPing the interface wouldn't be correct behavior. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
