[wplug-bsd] Dumb question: "no route to host" but why?

[Poyner, Brandon]

I've gotten as many as 4 EEPro cards to work together in one Linux box.
I really can't explain why they sometimes cooperate and many times they
won't, but I've seen it happen across operating systems (Linux, BSD, and
Windows).  But considering other hardware flakiness I guess it's not so
bad; one of the biggest head scratchers I've ever seen was a hard drive
that would work in any room but the data center.

If you do a 'man xl' you'll see the chipsets the driver covers.
Personally I don't feel it's a driver problem but a hardware resource
problem.  I don't have any specific evidence about that though.  Perhaps
you know somebody that would be willing to trade ethernet cards?  I'm
fairly sure all my spares at home are EEPro.

Brandon Poyner
Network Engineer III
CCAC - College Office
412-237-3086

> Well crap.  I have four (4) xl-type cards, and no two of them work 
> together.  I have one other el cheapo card but FreeBSD can't 
> find a driver 
> for it.  I'm pretty pissed off that I can't get a simple 
> two-NIC server 
> working when I have 5 NICs.
> 
> By the way, I now have 'status: active' on both cards (I 
> assume that comes 
> from switching around the PCI slots), but I still don't get a route.
> 
> Do you have any other suggestions, or do I actually have to go to the 
> store and buy another NIC?  How can I tell from the packaging 
> whether it's 
> going to be an xl-driven card?
> 
> -Brandon