From jon@wwwebservers.com Sun Mar 22 20:43:08 1998 From: jon@wwwebservers.com To: users@lists.opensuse.org Subject: [S.u.S.E. Linux] Re: SIOCADDRT and SIOCSIFADDR errors Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 21:43:08 +0100 Message-ID: <6f3t4s$p3g$1@Galois.suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============5242662999289402564==" --===============5242662999289402564== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Donn Washburn wrote: Hey Groups: I have a complete lack of understanding what is wrong with my "eth0" network on 2 machines. [snip-and-tuck] Problem is if I do a "ifconfig /dev/eth0 192.168.##.##" I get a error "SIOCSIFADDR: No such [snip some here too] This is a normal mistake with novice admins, /dev/eth0 is just a conocial path -- which is not needed with ethXX devices, also the SIOCSIFADDR is saying that the ethernet device is not registered -- it may be possible ifconfig does not parse properly with "/dev/" who knows.. I don't care to look at the source right now.. Try this command: bash# ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up if you still get that error, try setting the card to different settings or use the isapnp tools (if isa) or pcitools -- just released last month. btw: I am new to the group and I am looking forward to the fun times that are ahead. +-------- | Jon Torrez | Systems Administrator - WWWebServers, Inc.=20 | http://www.wwwebservers.com> / jon(a)wwwebservers.com +---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e --===============5242662999289402564==--