On Feb 10, 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?
> 

You want "rarpd -d de0". Ethernet board are not character or block devices,
and thus are adressed in a different way. They don't have entries in /dev.

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