From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.odell@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: new termrc
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:00:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9ab217670704301300v11dad276jdc9cbf8a3f167e71@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49a177d94db573fedad5ded945a1da21@quintile.net>
2007/4/30, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net>:
> > if you add ether=010203040506 (with your
> > ethernet address) to the entry for your system
> > then $sysname should get set.
>
> Beware, the ether= field must have the ethernet address
> in lower case, this is because all fields are case sensitive
> when they are matched by libndb and the accress printed
> by /dev/ether0/addr is in lower case.
This is true. I remember getting bitten by this and Boyd (may his soul
rest in peace) ranting about how ridiculous it was when we were
setting things up on a Mini-ITX board.
> -Steve
--dho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-30 20:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-26 23:15 [9fans] " geoff
2007-04-30 8:29 ` [9fans] " Alex Brainman
2007-04-30 15:09 ` Russ Cox
2007-04-30 15:23 ` Lucio De Re
2007-04-30 15:32 ` erik quanstrom
2007-04-30 15:41 ` Lucio De Re
2007-04-30 15:42 ` Russ Cox
2007-04-30 19:49 ` Steve Simon
2007-04-30 20:00 ` Devon H. O'Dell [this message]
2007-05-01 9:39 ` matt
2007-05-02 8:36 ` Alex Brainman
2007-05-02 8:36 ` Alex Brainman
2007-05-02 8:36 ` Alex Brainman
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