Problems with dual ethernet card

scuba at centroin.com.br scuba at centroin.com.br
Tue Sep 13 11:09:40 PDT 2005


hi Tim,

Is it listed here?

http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/hardware-i386.html#ETHERNET

- Marcelo Souza

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Tim Goodaire wrote:

|Recently, I've begun making the switch from Debian Linux to FreeBSD.
|I've been trying to set up my old Linux gateway box with FreeBSD 5.4, but
|I'm having a strange problem with my dual-port ethernet card.
|
|It was working fine in Linux, but in FreeBSD dc0 is fine, but dc1 shows
|up in ifconfig with the status "No carrier". I've tried switching out
|ethernet cables to see if it makes any difference, but no luck.
|
|Unfortunately, I don't know where to begin looking for solutions to this
|problem. I'm thinking that there may be some sort of conflict or maybe
|my card isn't supported.
|
|Any ideas? I can provide more details if needed. I just don't know what
|else to tell you about my problem.
|
|Thanks,
|Tim
|


- Marcelo




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