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From: Martin Harriss <martin@Princeton.EDU>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Fileserver question
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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 22:25:53 -0400
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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