hi, On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 11:21:42AM +0200, Nico Meijer wrote: > > i'm still having a weird > > issue with the nics not properly initializing somehow after a powerdown > > though. maybe it needs a bios-upgrade, but as i don't usually powerdown > > (reboot is ok) i haven't really investigated it. > I've had that issue, but have hardcoded the media options in hostname.re > and my problems have disappeared. See hostname.if(5).
i tried, but it didn't help. i've fscked my disk enough for now... when the symptoms occur, it hangs on 'Starting network', and nothing happens. no link-lights on the nics, no way to interact with the machine but the reset-switch. one of the three times i tried, re0 came up, but it hung on re1, same thing. weird. i also noticed that the link-lights are on during POST, and go off when the kernel inits the nics. then they just never come on again. the same thing happens with a 'normal' boot (one that does succeed), with the important difference that the link-lights come on when 'Starting network' is displayed... to be complete : /etc/hostname.re0 : dhcp NONE NONE NONE media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex /etc/hostname.re1 : inet 192.168.1.3 255.255.255.0 NONE media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex -- CUL8R, Peter.
