Re: [9fans] Fileserver question

[jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com]

yes, at the moment some cards require that, we only do chip setup
at boot time. usually it's not a problem as the cards don't hop around
from switch to switch and we usually boot over the network, so if the
cable's not connected you find out pretty quickly.

we've been doing some work recently to allow insertion and removal
of pc cards and this will utimately require the ethernet drivers to
deal with link going up and down.

On Thu Aug 16 22:26:22 EDT 2001, martin@Princeton.EDU wrote:
> jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
> > 
> >         ether0: i82557: 0Mbps port 0xe400 irq 12: 0002630325a0
> >                        ^^^^^^
> > 
> > that means the driver did not detect link on the card when it
> > initialised. check the cable - check the lights on the back of the
> > card.
> 
> Does this mean that you have to have the cable connected when the system
> boots, or can you subsequently connect a cable and make it happy?
> 
> I remember seeing this message once and thinking that the card in
> question (which was of dubious origin) was bad.
> 
> Martin