On Wed, 02 Sep 2015 21:06:24 +0200, Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mott...@libero.it> wrote:
> I boot and work through the menus until I need to configure the network. > There I see the fxp0 interface, perform autoconfiguration. - dhcp never > succeeds and I get a series of messages of CARRIER and NO CARRIER, until > it eventually gives up with no address > - repeating the attempt several times doesn't help I have seen this behavior with 'dhcpcd' and "fxp" interfaces all the time. One must use the "-K, --nolink" (ignore carrier messages) command-line options or the "nolink" keyword in "dhcpcd.conf" to work around it. As suggested, a statically-assigned IP will work just fine. -- |/"\ John D. Baker, KN5UKS NetBSD Darwin/MacOS X |\ / jdbaker[snail]mylinuxisp[flyspeck]com OpenBSD FreeBSD | X No HTML/proprietary data in email. BSD just sits there and works! |/ \ GPGkeyID: D703 4A7E 479F 63F8 D3F4 BD99 9572 8F23 E4AD 1645
