On 2010-05-12, Siju George <sgeorge.ml@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:
>> Did you 'ifconfig <iface> up'? Some NICs show link before this is
>> done, others do not.
>>
>>
>
> Ok :-)
>
> # ifconfig rl2 up
> # ifconfig rl2
> rl2: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         lladdr 00:0b:5d:4c:5b:30
>         priority: 0
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
>         status: no carrier
>         inet6 fe80::2e0:4dff:fe06:2b68%rl2 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
>         inet 132.181.20.26 netmask 0xfffffffc broadcast 132.181.20.27
>
> does not seem to work :-(
>
> Thanks for the reply Stuart :-)
>
> --Siju
>
>

Are you able to try any different types of NIC? (either a newer realtek
card using the re(4) driver, or something like fxp, de, sk, bge, em).

Alternatively, connecting the modem via a switch might work.