Try forcing a media?

"# ifconfig le0 inet 192.168.1.239 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast
192.168.1.255 media 10baseT/UTP up"

--lava


On Sat, 12 May 2001, dkwok wrote:

> By going through systematically each io port,  the system finally detected the card
>
> nele0 at isa0 port 0x340-0x357 irq 5 drq 7
> le0 at nele0: NE2100 Ethernet
> le0: address 08:00:09:be:3c:c6
> le0: 8 receive buffers, 2 transmit buffers
>
> But I can only get to this far.
>
> The device timed out.
>
> This is what happened with ifconfig -a:
>
> le0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         media: Ethernet manual
>         status: no carrier
>         inet 192.168.1.239 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
>         inet6 fe80::a00:9ff:febe:3cc6%le0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
>
> Though ethernet cable is connected properly to the nic.
>
> Would anyone can suggest the next diagnostic step?
>
> David Kwok
>

--Brian

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