Attansic L1 Gigabit discovered on install but no link

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 01:29:35PM +0100, Patrick Ale wrote:
> Good afternoon,
> 
> I tried to install FreeBSD 8.0 about 30 minutes ago and during the
> installation I encountered a problem.
> 
> My network card is detected but on DHCP Server discoverage I see that
> no link is detected and that the driver/dhcp discovery process is
> giving up on trying.
> 

I assume you're using age(4).
age(4) is one of driver that still does full re-initialization while
dhclient(8) is running, how about unplugging the UTP cable and
replug it while DHCP is in progress?

> I understoodthat the Attansic L1 Gigabit card's support is sort of
> problematic due to the 'openness' of the documentation but I'd really
> like to know how I can help or what I can do to get this driver
> working on my Acer Aspire 8920 laptop. Buying another NIC for this
> particular thing is not really an option.
> 

There are several variants of L1 so please show me the dmesg
output.

> Any suggestion is welcome, my C programming skills are not really to
> write home about so I am afraid I can't contribute much on that point
> but if you need test dummies or feel like I can help out or if you
> need more information, please let me know.
> 
> 
> Thank you for your time in advance,
> 
> 
> Patrick
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