[wplug-bsd] More NIC hassle

[Brandon Kuczenski]

This is unbelievable.  Same box, running FreeBSD 5.3.  I have another card 
in now, using the de driver, but NOW the old card -- the one that worked 
up until now -- is having the same problem: "no route to host" when 
netstat -rn is fine and ifconfig is fine.  I can't even ping the router -- 
I get "no route to host" for any address except localhost.

What the hell is going on?  I know this card works -- I've been using it 
for hours now.  ALl that changed was that I put in a new card.

The new card doesn't work either -- dmesg reports "can't read ENET ROM 
(why=-4)". Though it does seem to identify the card correctly (de0), it 
doesn't create an interface.

Here's the dmesg output for the card (copied by hand, since it has no net 
access):
Jul  8 18:45:46 cytoplasm kernel: de0: <Digital 21140A Fast Ethernet> Port 
0x1080-10ff mem 0xf4008000-0xf400807f irq 10 at device 14.0 on pci0
Jul  8 18:45:46 cytoplasm kernel: de0: can't read ENET ROM (why=-4) 
(b8100120000000000000000000000000510003010000c0af69f9001e0000ffff
Jul  8 18:45:46 cytoplasm kernel: de0: 21140A [10-100Mb/s] pass 2.0
Jul  8 18:45:46 cytoplasm kernel: de0: address unknown



I can't understand why this is so hard.  WHAT AM I NOT GETTING???? FreeBSD 
5.3 should do all this shit by itself.  Fifteen hours of work to get two 
NICs working.  ANd both cards have already been shown to work in other 
systems.

Can anybody help?

-Brandon