Maybe the MAC card has auto MDI-X? You usually need a crossover cable
to connected two computers directly without a hub/switch.
-Original Message-
From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of David Collins
Sent: Wednesday, June 03,
David Collins wrote:
Hi,
I have just gotten an old ethernet card, not entirely sure how old it
is but it has pulse H1012 on one of the chips and appears as ethernet
device fxp0 in freebsd 7.0.
When I plug an ethernet cable between this card and another computer
(freebsd 7.2) ifconfig
unplug either end and plug it into my ibook (OS X) the status changes
to active and I can ping the other computer. From this I can see that
both both freebsd computers have working ethernet cards and the cable
works also, just not freebsd-freebsd.
Does anyone have any ideas why this might be the
On 03/06/2009, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
unplug either end and plug it into my ibook (OS X) the status changes
to active and I can ping the other computer. From this I can see that
both both freebsd computers have working ethernet cards and the cable
works also,
Again, cross-over cable!
- Original Message -
From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Wed Jun 03 17:25:17 2009
Subject: Re: ethernet card not working
On 03/06/2009, Wojciech Puchar
The cable works find and so does the network card. I have it plugged
is it crossover cable for sure?
into my ibook and am sshing across it - everything works fine and as
it should when using freebsd to osx, just can't do the same from
some cards MAY work without crossing over pairs -
