On Tue, 25 Mar 1997 17:28:29 -0800 (PST) 
 Shrike <shrike@televar.com> wrote:

 > I read the Install document and tried:
 > 
 > ifconfig ep0 <myIPaddress> netmask 0xffffff00
 > 
 > It tells me SIOCGIFFLAGS: Device not configured
 > 
 > 
 > I am very new at this, and have not configured an ethernet card before.
 > Any help that you can give me would be greatly appreciated

Ah, yes, that's just an example... it will be slightly different for
each host.

What exact model of Ethernet card do you have?  Did it configure as
some other unit?  You can get the entire list by doing:

	ifconfig -a

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