From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3aaafc131003251534m68709680n898b1c8b530d44de@mail.gmail.com> References: <13f7b5ea0f83dfb24a538b3a74bdc278@quintile.net> <3aaafc131003251534m68709680n898b1c8b530d44de@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:00:57 -0300 Message-ID: <32d987d51003252300g38ff307w744a45607b3fd9fd@mail.gmail.com> From: "Federico G. Benavento" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [9fans] native install Topicbox-Message-UUID: f353d76c-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 if the ethernet address is broken you can try to see if the nic is still usable by setting promiscuous mode on... I had the a problem years ago with andrey's sis900 driver (the one in the distribution didn't work with my nic), when I changed from a terminal to a 9pcf kernel it stopped working! somehow it wasn't getting the eaddr right, after some debugging I noticed that the distribution driver worked, but only when snoopy was running... I'm a network ignorant and I was even more ignorant then, so I didn't notice that snoopy reported 0xFFFFFFF or something for address and it worked because snoopy turns promiscuous mode on. so I checked the lunixes driver and found out how to write the ether address correctly to the device and got it working, but ironically a day later geoff pushed his version of the driver for kenfs which was a merge of andrey's and charles' driver... -- Federico G. Benavento