ale0 gets no carrier

[Marius Nünnerich]

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.

 - Marius