On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Ken Wellsch wrote:

> I have an older piece of hardware that I wanted to netboot, so I set-up
> /etc/ethers with the hardware-address-to-hostname-mapping.  To my dismay,
> when I then tried to start rarpd on the i386/1.3 based system I got this:
> 
> 	# rarpd -d /dev/de0
> 	rarpd: error: BIOCSETIF: Device not configured
> 
> I'm able to use tcpdump and I have BPF support gen'ed (ala GENERIC config).
> (BTW, the system has an SMC EtherPower 10/100 card)
> 
> I'm sure I'm being dumb and forgetting something... what do I need to do?
> 
> -- Ken Wellsch
>    kwellsch@link-systems.com
> 
Have you set up the ifconfig command with the appropriate data? I am 
presently at work and I don't remember what the file looks like. As soon 
as I get home, I will get you that info.


P.S.A