"no carrier" by using 82599 10 Gigabit Ethernet

[Jerry Toung]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Alexander Fiveg <pebu3op at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to use the network adapter based on the Intel® 82599 10 Gigabit
> Ethernet Controller with ixgbe-2.2.3 driver. The driver loads properly
> but ifconfig shows "no carrier" for all ix* interfaces. The adapter
> shouldn't
> be corrupt though - I've tested this adapter on the same machine with Linux
> (Ubuntu) and it worked properly.
>
>
Alex,
try setting an IP address on that interface anyway. You may see that
magically the carrier
is now there.
ping, etc.. should work too after that.
Jerry