On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Simon Raahauge DeSantis wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 06:33:28PM -0400, James Sharp wrote:
> > 
> > I have a big mac ethernet card in a sparc 5 running NetBSD 1.4K (but I
> > saw the same issue with NetBSD 1.4).
> > 
> > ifconfig reports a status of "no carrier" on be0, but traffic properly
> > flows in and out of the card.
> > 
> > I'm curious if this should properly display a carrier detect or if it will
> > show "no carrier" no matter what.
> > 
> 
> Mine does the same thing, but it works so I don't care very much (though it
> did confuse me for a long time):
> xiamin@ghostpriest ~ % ifconfig be0
> be0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         media: Ethernet 10baseT (10baseT half-duplex)
>         status: no carrier
>         inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255
> 


Sounds like a common thing then.  I tried 3 different cards cause I never
could get a carrier indication...I thought I had 3 bad cards.