only 1 card is "active", why

[Subhro]

Maybe the wire is faulty then?

Regards,
S.

Indian Institute of Information Technology
Subhro Sankha Kar
Block AQ-13/1, Sector V
Salt Lake City
PIN 700091
India

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gr [mailto:harrytinahit at yahoo.com.cn]
> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 13:33
> To: Subhro
> Subject: Re: only 1 card is "active", why
> 
> The wire that is always "no carrier" is definitely connected to a hub.
> 
> Subhro wrote:
> 
> >No carrier means, the NIC does not see a switch/hub at the other end.
> Thus you
> >need to plug in one card into the switch connected to your LAN and the
> other
> >to the modem.
> >
> >Regards
> >S.
> >
> >Indian Institute of Information Technology
> >Subhro Sankha Kar
> >Block AQ-13/1, Sector V
> >Salt Lake City
> >PIN 700091
> >India
> >
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> >>questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of ??
> >>Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 12:53
> >>To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> >>Subject: only 1 card is "active", why
> >>
> >>I use freebsd-5.3release as a gateway. I have 2 realtek 8139 card, one
> >>for Internet and the other for LAN. But when I execute "ifconfig", only
> >>1 card(rl0) is shown "active", and the other(rl1) is shown "no carrier".
> >>And when I exchange the wire, rl0 changes to "no carrier", and rl1
> >>changes to "no carrier". It seems that only 1 card can be in use. What
> >>can I do? Thanks.
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