[haiku-development] Re: How to check what is wrong at a booting time ?

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:07:02 +0100 CET

Hi Pawel,

Pawel Plociennik <paplociennik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I *must* will have been changed a ethernet mac to have a connection 
> to internet unfortunately :-(
> (the f... ISP has written other mac of my a previous computer which 
> is *valid* ethernet address)
> I think it is needed to have an additional option in a ifconfig which 
> it will given us a *possibility*
>  to change a physical address. 
> Now I am going to read and learn more about net stack and my via-
> rhine net driver implementation.

It would be relatively easy to add that functionality to the stack (and 
ifconfig) itself, but to make it actually work, all the drivers would 
need to support it as well, and that might turn out to be a lot of 
work.

Bye,
   Axel.


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