3c905b-tx not working on fresh install of FreeBSD 5.0
To all: I have just installed FreeBSD 5.0 on a Pent. 200 MMX w/192 MB RAM and 3-8 GB HDs (SCSI-using AHA-2940U). My NIC is a 3c905b-tx. The motherboard is set to non-plug-and-play. While booting the NIC shows link on my hub, but no activity (duh), but as soon as the kernel sends configuration parameters to the NIC it goes offline...no link lights or anything. I know the NIC works fine as I was using it with Win98SE just minutes before loading FreeBSD 5.0. I use the NICs config prog to check all the settings and they all appear to be fine. This is only my fourth install of FreeBSD so I am quite the novice, but I have never ran in to an issue with the NIC doing this before... The NIC does state (hw-loopback) in ifconfig, but I can not find a way to get this changed. I have tried to set the mediaopt setting to 100baseTX or even 10baseT/UTP, but neither fix the issue. ifconfig sees the card fine before I send the IP settings to the NIC, but once I set the IP the link lights disappear. The ifconfig command still shows my card, but I can't ping outside the box. I can ping the IP that I set to the NIC and the local loopback. Please help!! V/R, Wilson Steiger ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 3c905b-tx not working on fresh install of FreeBSD 5.0
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 03:58:13PM +0900, Steiger, N. Wilson, (GS-12E)(TRNG) ATG WESTPAC wrote: To all: I have just installed FreeBSD 5.0 on a Pent. 200 MMX w/192 MB RAM and 3-8 GB HDs (SCSI-using AHA-2940U). My NIC is a 3c905b-tx. The motherboard is set to non-plug-and-play. While booting the NIC shows link on my hub, but no activity (duh), but as soon as the kernel sends configuration parameters to the NIC it goes offline...no link lights or anything. I know the NIC works fine as I was using it with Win98SE just minutes before loading FreeBSD 5.0. I use the NICs config prog to check all the settings and they all appear to be fine. This is only my fourth install of FreeBSD so I am quite the novice, but I have never ran in to an issue with the NIC doing this before... The NIC does state (hw-loopback) in ifconfig, but I can not find a way to get this changed. I have tried to set the mediaopt setting to 100baseTX or even 10baseT/UTP, but neither fix the issue. ifconfig sees the card fine before I send the IP settings to the NIC, but once I set the IP the link lights disappear. The ifconfig command still shows my card, but I can't ping outside the box. I can ping the IP that I set to the NIC and the local loopback. FreeBSD 5.x isn't labed stable yet. Since 5.0 is the first version of the brance it still has a high change that one can run in to some bugs. Your best change of solving this is to install another version of FreeBSD or update (if you can). I also experianced this with 3c905C-TX on the 4.4. I solved this by installing 4.5. -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
3c905b-tx not working
To all: I have just installed FreeBSD 5.0 on a Pent. 200 MMX w/192 MB RAM and 3 8 GB HDs (SCSI-using AHA-2940U). My NIC is a 3c905b-tx. The MB is set to non-plug-and-play. While booting the NIC shows link on my hub, but no activity (duh), but as soon as the kernel sends configuration parameters to the NIC it goes offline...no link lights or anything. I know the NIC works fine as I was using it with Win98SE just minutes before loading FreeBSD 5.0. I use the NICs config prog to check all the settings and they all appear to be fine. This is only my fourth install of FreeBSD so I am quite the novice, but I have never ran in to an issue with the NIC doing this before... Please help!! V/R, Wilson Steiger ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: 3c905b-tx not working
I have just installed FreeBSD 5.0 on a Pent. 200 MMX w/192 MB RAM and 3 8 GB HDs (SCSI-using AHA-2940U). My NIC is a 3c905b-tx. The MB is set to non-plug-and-play. While booting the NIC shows link on my hub, but no activity (duh), but as soon as the kernel sends configuration parameters to the NIC it goes offline...no link lights or anything. I know the NIC works fine as I was using it with Win98SE just minutes before loading FreeBSD 5.0. I use the NICs config prog to check all the settings and they all appear to be fine. This is only my fourth install of FreeBSD so I am quite the novice, but I have never ran in to an issue with the NIC doing this before... Did you compile your kernel with support for: Device xl (3Com 3c50x nics) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: 3c905b-tx not working
I have just installed FreeBSD 5.0 on a Pent. 200 MMX w/192 MB RAM and 3 8 GB HDs (SCSI-using AHA-2940U). My NIC is a 3c905b-tx. The MB is set to non-plug-and-play. While booting the NIC shows link on my hub, but no activity (duh), but as soon as the kernel sends configuration parameters to the NIC it goes offline...no link lights or anything. I know the NIC works fine as I was using it with Win98SE just minutes before loading FreeBSD 5.0. I use the NICs config prog to check all the settings and they all appear to be fine. This is only my fourth install of FreeBSD so I am quite the novice, but I have never ran in to an issue with the NIC doing this before... Ooops! I meant: Did you compile your kernel with support for: Device xl (3Com 3c90x nics) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 3c905b-tx not working
Rather odd. I ONLY use 3c90x NICS on all my machines (FBSD 5.x included) and they work great. What output do you get from running /usr/sbin/ifconfig at the command prompt? You didn't specify whether you were running the GENERIC kernel but I assume this is so. When you installed (assuming you did so through CD-based sysinstall), did you by chance skip the chance to set up network interfaces? If so you can either run sysinstall again (don't need to reinstall the whole system, just choose to set up networking from main menu) or you can do it manually by adding one of these to your /etc/rc.conf: if using dhcp: ifconfig_xl0=dhcp if using manual addressing: ifconfig_xl0=inet your ip address netmask your netmask defaultrouter=ip address of gateway Hope this helps, VS On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 20:48:09 +0900 Steiger, N. Wilson, (GS-12E)(TRNG) ATG WESTPAC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To all: I have just installed FreeBSD 5.0 on a Pent. 200 MMX w/192 MB RAM and 3 8 GB HDs (SCSI-using AHA-2940U). My NIC is a 3c905b-tx. The MB is set to non-plug-and-play. While booting the NIC shows link on my hub, but no activity (duh), but as soon as the kernel sends configuration parameters to the NIC it goes offline...no link lights or anything. I know the NIC works fine as I was using it with Win98SE just minutes before loading FreeBSD 5.0. I use the NICs config prog to check all the settings and they all appear to be fine. This is only my fourth install of FreeBSD so I am quite the novice, but I have never ran in to an issue with the NIC doing this before... Please help!! V/R, Wilson Steiger ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 3c905b-tx not working
Oops. that should have read /sbin/ifconfig not /usr/sbin/ifconfig. Sorry any confusion :) On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 09:00:43 -0400 Val Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rather odd. I ONLY use 3c90x NICS on all my machines (FBSD 5.x included) and they work great. What output do you get from running /usr/sbin/ifconfig at the command prompt? You didn't specify whether you were running the GENERIC kernel but I assume this is so. When you installed (assuming you did so through CD-based sysinstall), did you by chance skip the chance to set up network interfaces? If so you can either run sysinstall again (don't need to reinstall the whole system, just choose to set up networking from main menu) or you can do it manually by adding one of these to your /etc/rc.conf: if using dhcp: ifconfig_xl0=dhcp if using manual addressing: ifconfig_xl0=inet your ip address netmask your netmask defaultrouter=ip address of gateway Hope this helps, VS On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 20:48:09 +0900 Steiger, N. Wilson, (GS-12E)(TRNG) ATG WESTPAC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To all: I have just installed FreeBSD 5.0 on a Pent. 200 MMX w/192 MB RAM and 3 8 GB HDs (SCSI-using AHA-2940U). My NIC is a 3c905b-tx. The MB is set to non-plug-and-play. While booting the NIC shows link on my hub, but no activity (duh), but as soon as the kernel sends configuration parameters to the NIC it goes offline...no link lights or anything. I know the NIC works fine as I was using it with Win98SE just minutes before loading FreeBSD 5.0. I use the NICs config prog to check all the settings and they all appear to be fine. This is only my fourth install of FreeBSD so I am quite the novice, but I have never ran in to an issue with the NIC doing this before... Please help!! V/R, Wilson Steiger ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
