NIC has IP, but has "no carrier"

[Noor Dawod]

Hi,

It was a bad cable indeed... pretty amazing how stupid someone could be.
Thanks for the quick help!

Noor


| -----Original Message-----
| From: Mike Sturdee [mailto:sturdee at mikesweb.com]
| Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 2:46 PM
| To: Noor Dawod
| Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List
| Subject: Re: NIC has IP, but has "no carrier"
|
|
| Do you have link light on the NIC and switch? Sounds like a bad cable.
|
| -Mike
|
|
| On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Noor Dawod wrote:
|
| > Hello,
| >
| > My computer is not connecting to the local network with the
| following
| > configuration:
| >
| > dmesg.boot contains the following lines:
| > -----------------------------------------
| > vr0: <VIA VT3043 Rhine I 10/100BaseTX> port 0xec00-0xec7f mem
| > 0xfeafbc00-0xfeafbc7f irq 11 at device 12.0 on pci2
| > vr0: Ethernet address: 00:40:05:a5:00:04
| > miibus0: <MII bus> on vr0
| > amphy0: <Am79C873 10/100 media interface> on miibus0
| > amphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
| >
| > ifconfig -a reports the following after booting up:
| > -----------------------------------------
| > vr0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
| > 	inet 192.168.80.111 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.80.255
| > 	ether 00:40:05:a5:00:04
| > 	media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
| > 	status: no carrier
| > lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
| > 	inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
| >
| > Routing tables as reported by netstat -r:
| > -----------------------------------------
| > Internet:
| > Destination        Gateway            Flags    Refs      Use  Netif
| > Expire
| > default            192.168.80.100     UGSc        0        0    vr0
| > localhost          localhost          UH          0       72    lo0
| > 192.168.80         link#1             UC          1        0    vr0
| > 192.168.80.100     link#1             UHLW        1        0    vr0
| >
| > /etc/rc.conf contains the following lines, among others:
| > -----------------------------------------
| > hostname="blah.server.net"
| > tcp_extensions="NO"
| > log_in_vain="NO"
| > tcp_keepalive="NO"
| > network_interfaces="auto"
| > ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1"
| > ifconfig_vr0="inet 192.168.80.222 netmask 255.255.255.0"
| > defaultrouter="192.168.80.100"
| > gateway_enable="NO"
| >
| > I also tried adding " media auto" in the ifconfig_vr0 above, but it
| > didn't help. Same scenario.
| > There's no problem in the cables as I use this same port in
| a Windows
| > 2000 workstation.
| >
| > What am I missing?
| >
| > TIA,
| >
| > /Noor
| >
| > _______________________________________________
| > freebsd-stable at freebsd.org mailing list
| > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable
| > To unsubscribe, send any mail to
| "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"
| >
|
|
|
| --------------------------------------
| "Hard Work Often Pays Off After Time,
|  but Laziness Always Pays Off Now."
|
|