[lug] ifconfig errors

[Ed Hill]

On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 16:31, Glenn Murray wrote:
> The other seven boxes I set up in this building use 255.255.192.0 for
> the netmask, and the network guy confirms this.  As the card works
> fine under Windoze, I don't think it's a hardware problem at all.  I
> think it's a configuration problem of some sort.  IRQ?


How about a kernel driver problem?

The 2.2.20 kernel that you're using isn't exactly recent.  And many
manufacturers continuously change the chipsets that they use on their
NICs so drivers need to be updated fairly frequently...

Ed

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