On 2010-05-12, Siju George <sgeorge...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> > wrote: >> Did you 'ifconfig <iface> up'? Some NICs show link before this is >> done, others do not. >> >> > > Ok :-) > > # ifconfig rl2 up > # ifconfig rl2 > rl2: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > lladdr 00:0b:5d:4c:5b:30 > priority: 0 > media: Ethernet autoselect (none) > status: no carrier > inet6 fe80::2e0:4dff:fe06:2b68%rl2 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 > inet 132.181.20.26 netmask 0xfffffffc broadcast 132.181.20.27 > > does not seem to work :-( > > Thanks for the reply Stuart :-) > > --Siju > >
Are you able to try any different types of NIC? (either a newer realtek card using the re(4) driver, or something like fxp, de, sk, bge, em). Alternatively, connecting the modem via a switch might work.
