Hello list.
I'm setting up an old Toshiba laptop as a firewall, DNS forwarder, DHCP
server and wireless access point using OpenBSd 4.0 i386.

I have 3 network interfaces:
- unknown-brand USB 10/100 interface, available as axe0, working perfectly
- Netgear PCMCIA wireless interface, available as ath0, working perfectly
- unknown-brand PCMCIA 10/100, available as ne3, *almost* working

My idea is to use axe0 as external interface (the laptop has no USB2 support,
so it will never make high transfer speed anyway), ne3 as internal cabled
interface, and ath0 as "internal" wireless access point.

Everything is working perfectly so far except by ne3: the card is recognized,
it gets its IP address correctly during boot, but apparently there is no link
to the switch. The connection leds on card's dongle light up, but the
switch's port corresponding led doesn't, and I can't ping any other box on
the network.
Cable and switch port are OK, I have tested with another card; ping is
successfull ,too.
I also tried to fix card's speed and duplex (to 100full) adding corresponding
entries to hostname.ne3, alas to no avail.
Unfortunately, I cannot use the "ok" card used for tests because it is a
"thick" one, with no dongle, and it make the laptop's second PCMCIA slot
unavailable for wireless card.

Has someone had similar experiences?
Can someone give me a hint about what's happening?

Thank you in advance,
bye,
Manuel
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