ale0 gets no carrier

[Mike Tancsa]

At 02:22 PM 10/22/2009, Marius Nünnerich 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.


Did you try and give it an IP address so that its 
"UP" ? Some nics dont seem to have carrier until 
you put it in UP state with an IP. Try something simple like
ifconfig ale0 192.168.255.254/30

         ---Mike


>  - Marius
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