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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:43:36 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] native install
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> I've also noticed that the man page for plan9.ini(8), it says
> >On the SiS controllers, the Ethernet address is not
> >detected properly; specify it with an ea= attribute.
>
> Is ea= supposed to be set to the actual ip address (the man page says physical
> network adress)? If so that's probably my problem.

ea is supposed to be an ethernet address.  ethernet
addresses have the format
	ea=112233445566
where 1-6 are *lowercase* hex digits.  the first
byte & 0x80 should be 0.

- erik