Attansic L1 Gigabit discovered on install but no link

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 06:51:19PM +0100, Patrick Ale wrote:
> 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.
> 

This indicates there is a problem for link state change detection.

> 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.
> 

I'm still interested in seeing the output of "devinfo -rv | grep phy".

> >
> > 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