On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 01:16:50AM +1100, Darren Reed wrote:
> I've landed myself an Indy workstation and after installing IRIX 6.2,
> it comes up with an error at bootup about the ethernet interface, ec0,
> having a bad address (ff:ff:fd:df:b7:db or similar), fails to go into
> "standalone mode", panics, crashes and begins the cycle over.  I would
> not be surprised if this box has been without power "for some time".
> How nasty is this error and how do I fix it (if I can) ?

Depends on whether the hostid has just been overwritten of if the
NVRAM chip has become wonky.

In any case, try resetting it as described in
http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/sgimips/faq.html#resetting-eaddr .


-- 
Soren