[lug] ifconfig errors

[Glenn Murray]

The drivers and kernel all came down in the most recent Debian woody
boot floppies.

Thanks,
Glenn Murray
http://www.mines.edu/~gmurray

On 23 May 2002, Ed Hill wrote:

> 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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