Subject: Re: Unable to ifconfig - t1 100
To: Tom Danielsen <tom@mnemonic.no>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 10/15/2002 22:57:58
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 10:50:00PM +0200, Tom Danielsen wrote:
> On 15.10 20:26, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:38:40AM +0200, Tom Danielsen wrote:
> > 
> > > The problem is that I am not able to set an IP address on either
> > > of the interfaces.
> > 
> > Try using them - they'll probably work.
> > 
> > On the miniroot (and install kernels with embeded ram disk) ifconfig is
> > lying to you when reading back the inet address (toolchain problems, we worked
> > around that for the next release.)
> > 
> > The standard installation does not have this problem, so once your system is
> > up, all should be working.
> > 
> > Martin
> 
> I tried the interfaces, they did not work.
> 
> After a little searching I found people had the same problem with 1.5.1,
> the solution was to use ifconfig from base.tgz.  I tried this - now I
> see the IP address I set on the interface.
> 
> But I still can't make it work... :-(  And the symptoms are strange, I
> can't quite figure it out.
> 
> After havnig configured hme0 I ping the netboot/jumpstart (Solaris)

Did you try hme1 ? NetBSD seems to have issues with the hme0 on these
machines.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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