Re: [COMP] NIC Problems in Linux

Tim McGowan wrote:

> I've got a system that I just loaded Slackware 7.0 on.  It originally
> had Win 95 on it and the NIC worked fine.  But now, Linux finds the
> card (a D-Link DFE 530tx), but sees that it has an incorrect hardware
> address.  For some reason, Linux sees the address as 83:(blah) when
> the actual address is 00:(same blah).  I've checked the D-Link
> site and it says to use the via-rhine driver and that driver finds
> the card just fine.  I'm at a university, so all the IP's are
> assigned via DHCP by hardware address.  Therefore, the incorrect
> address is preventing me from getting an IP.  I have tried manually
> assigning the IP since I know what the DHCP will give it, but that
> doesn't seem to work either. Would this incorrect hardware address
> prevent correct I/O from the card to the rest of the system?
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
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Maybe if you spoof your enet addie it will work. Go to
http://www.hackers.com/html/unix-fu.html
and scroll down till you see scrap 0.3 and download it. Run it and see
if it works. I haven't used it before so you'd be going into uncharted
territory but it should be useful in the future if it works too!

james
goose@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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