Hello,
I dont think the problem is related to releasing the DHCP lease because I have
Windows XP, SuSE linux and now FreeBSD installed on the computer. I havent had any
problem with Windows/Linux.
Here's what I get in dmesg for my network interface:
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sis0: NatSemi DP8381[56] 10/100BaseTX port 0x8c00-0x8cff mem 0xd0008000-0xd0008fff
irq 11 at device 18.0 on pci0
sis0: Silicon Revision: DP83816A
sis0: Ethernet address: 00:0d:9d:43:e5:b7
miibus0: MII bus on sis0
sis0: watchdog timeout
---
As soon as this is logged while booting the Ethernet LED on my broadband modem goes
OFF. I tried loading module if_sis0.ko and apm.ko, and the Ethernet LED lights up, but
when I loaded these modules at startup (/boot/loader.conf) the LED still goes off.
When I run dhclient -v I get the following output:
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Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.1rc12
Copyright 1995-2002 Internet Software Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
Listening on BPF/sis0/00:0d:9d:43:e5:b7
Sending on BPF/sis0/00:0d:9d:43:e5:b7
Listening on BPF/fwe0/02:0d:9d:43:60:7e
Sending on BPF/fwe0/02:0d:9d:43:60:7e
Listening on BPF/wi0/00:02:8a:a9:e1:7a
Sending on BPF/wi0/00:02:8a:a9:e1:7a
Sending on Socket/fallback
---
Ifconfig sis0 gives me
sis0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::20d:9dff:fe43:e5b7%sis0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 255.255.255.255
ether 00:0d:9d:43:e5:b7
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX hw-loopback)
status: active
I may be completely wrong, but I think some wrong module is getting loaded, which is
causing this problem. Can you point out how I can debug more, and get this solved???
Thanks in advance,
--Nikhil.
John Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nikhil Kale wrote:
Hello,
I have just installed FreeBSD 5.2 on my system. My
network card is National Semiconductors DP 83815 which
is detected properly for interface sis0. But somehow I
cant bring the interface up using DHCP. My machine is
a dual boot, and the linux system gets the proper DHCP
address.
man 8 dhclient says:
The client normally doesn't release the current lease as it is not
required by the DHCP protocol. Some cable ISPs require their clients
to notify the server if they wish to release an assigned IP address.
The -r flag explicitly releases the current lease, and once the lease
has been released, the client exits.
So you may need to do whatever is your Linux version of dhclient -r
The DHCP server has already assigned a lease to Linux which FreeBSD
knows nothing about.
I am new to FreeBSD and am not sure whats happening.
Welcome.
You should send technical questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Where I have CC'd this reply.
--
John.
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