Attansic L1 Gigabit discovered on install but no link

[Patrick Ale]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:52 AM, Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 11:28:54AM +0100, Patrick Ale wrote:
>> Good morning!
>
> After you see the failure DHCP, unplug the UTP cable and wait 2-3
> seconds and replug the UTP cable again. And execute "dhclient ale0",
> does it make any difference?

Hi,

Yes that works. Even better, I think it is fixed for me, I can't
explain how though.
During the installation and after the installation, a 'dhclient ale0'
would throw 'no link' errors, when I yank the cable and put it back in
and run 'dhclient ale0' as you suggested, it works.

Now for the fun: I changed 'if_ale0="inet 192.168.1.2 "..etc etc. to
"if_ale0="dhcp" in /etc/rc.conf, the link comes up normally after a
reboot, without yanking cables etc.

> It seems you've removed PHY driver related message here.
> Show me the output of "devinfo -rv | grep phy". Also show me the
> output of "pciconf -lcv".

I am sending this email from Solaris now as I am still fighting to
find a decent console email client (trying mutt and struggling).
If you are still interested in the output, knowing my problem is
solved, let me know and I will gladly provide you with the
information.

>
> Last time I tried ale(4) it worked as expected. I have no longer
> access to ale(4) hardware so it would be hard to fix that but I'll
> see what I can do.

It is working as expected for me now too, as I said, I am a bit
puzzled but happy.
I see my Intel Wireless is supported too so if you still want to have
a look I could give you a login on my laptop over wireless so you can
bring the interface up and down, I don't have any secret data here
anyway and I doubt you're interested in Dutch music ;-)
>

I have to say, I am really impressed by the support you people give
and gave me so far, thank you very much and I hope my knowledge about
FreeBSD and it's internals soon will be sufficient to return the favor
to the community.


Patrick