[Tfug] freebsd nic help

[Bexley Hall]

--- christopher floess <skeptikos at gmail.com> wrote:

> High everyone. I've got a FreeBSD question here.

<grin>
 
> I was going to configure NAT on my machine, which
> I had done before on a different machine, but for
> some reason none of the extra  nics are recognized.
> Does anyone have any idea of how to troubleshoot
> this?

What does your probe() look like (dmesg or equiv)?
Is the device listed *there*?  If so, just build
the right /dev entry (unless FBSD's device handling
has changed significantly in the years since I last
ran it... is devfs real, now?)
 
> Here's ifconfig -a
> 
> bge0:
> flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
> mtu 1500
>         options=1a<TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING>
>         inet6 fe80::250:2cff:fe09:8a4d%bge0
> prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
>         inet 68.105.xxx.xxx netmask 0xffffff00
> broadcast 68.105.140.255
>         ether 00:50:2c:09:8a:4d
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX
> <full-duplex>)
>         status: active
> fwe0: flags=108802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu
> 1500
>         options=8<VLAN_MTU>
>         ether 02:50:2c:09:9d:16
>         ch 1 dma -1
> plip0: flags=108810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
> mtu 1500
> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu
> 16384
>         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
>         inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
>         inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
> 
> You can see that bge0 works. That's my connection to
> the
> outside world, but my inside nic's which both use
> the
> realtek driver aren't listed, and on previous
> systems have
> been under /dev/rlx .
> 
> I have a feeling this might be a hardware issue.
> Unfortunately I don't know how to remedy hardware
> stuff
> well. Paul, this is the system you sold me a while
> back, if
> you have any ideas.
> 
> I also don't have any other pci cards to stick in
> the
> slots to see if that might be the problem. Alright,
> that about sums it up.
> -- 
> Q: What did the zen buddhist say to the hotdog
> vendor?
> 
> A: Make me one with everything ~ Dr. Jonathan Katz
A2: Hold the onions...


       
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