ale0 gets no carrier

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 08:22:50PM +0200, Marius N?nnerich wrote:
> Hi Pyun, all,
> 
> today I installed FreeBSD 8-STABLE r198366 on a new Box. It has a Atheros nic:
> ale0 at pci0:2:0:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x831c1043 chip=0x10261969
> rev=0xb0 hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Attansic (Now owned by Atheros)'
>     device     = 'PCI-E ETHERNET CONTROLLER  (AR8121/AR8113 )'
>     class      = network
>     subclass   = ethernet
> 
> ale0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>         options=319a<TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC>
>         ether 00:24:8c:a4:0a:b3
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
>         status: no carrier
> 
> The nic gets no carrier at all. I tried against two known-working nics
> with a cross-over cable and against a dsl-modem.
> Any idea what to try? Will happily test patches.
> 

Would you show me dmesg output related with ale(4)/atphy(4)?
Also show me the output "devinfo -rv | grep phy".