Re: gem0 problems with 6.2

[Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh_(_at_)_gmail_(_dot_)_com>]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 07:40:05PM -0700, emre n/a wrote:
 > Hello,
 > 
 > Thanks for the quick reply.  I'm not sure what I did, but networking  
 > is somewhat working, not smoothly however.
 > 
 > I unplugged the cable, plugged it back in, and then  manually ran  
 > dhclient gem0 after reboot (after an unsuccessful configuration).  I  
 > got an IP address back and  IPv6 configured itself fine as well.
 > 
 > I put ifconfig_gem0="DHCP" instead of the static IP address into  
 > rc.conf.  Then I rebooted.  dhclient tries to get an IP address at  
 > boot-up but fails to get any offers, and ultimately gives up.  It  
 > then uses the 'recorded lease' IP address, and then everything  
 > works....sometimes.  It's very random and rarely works.
 > 
 > I changed my rc.conf back to what it was (static IP config), and  
 > added 'media 100baseTX' at the end.  It seems that it might've fixed  
 > the problem.  I have no problem getting networking to work now,  
 > however DHCP still remains problematic.  Maybe it wasn't unable to  
 > correctly determine the media type?  See dmesg below.
 > 
 > Take care
 > 

Thanks for feedback but what I really want is "verbosed boot message"
instead of plain dmesg output. You can get the verbosed boot message
by adding the following line to /boot/loader.conf.

boot_verbose="1"

-- 
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon
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