ale0 gets no carrier

[Marius Nünnerich]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 21:05, Mike Tancsa <mike at sentex.net> wrote:
> 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

Wow! Good idea, that did work!

Thanks
Marius