[gentoo-user] ioctl SIOCSIFADDR: Bad file descriptor
Hi, I'm trying to install Gentoo on an old machine, but I run into a problem with getting it on the net. When the machine boots it apparently autodetects the NIC but when I rund 'dhcpcd eth0', I get a hundred million entries in /var/log/everything/current that look like this: [dhcpcd]: dhcpStop: ioctl SIOCSIFADDR: Bad file descriptor [dhcpcd]: dhcpStop: ioctl SIOCSIFFLAGS: Bad file descriptor [dhcpcd]: terminating on signal 4 What do they mean and what can I do to fix it? I have tried with two different NIC's, none of them work, but they both work in win95, which is installed on the computer. Thanks in advance. Christian -- If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port And the bus is interupted as a very last resort And the adress on the mem'ry makes your floppy disk abort then the socket packet pocket has an error to report. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ioctl SIOCSIFADDR: Bad file descriptor
On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 14:57, Christian Riis wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install Gentoo on an old machine, but I run into a problem with getting it on the net. When the machine boots it apparently autodetects the NIC but when I rund 'dhcpcd eth0', I get a hundred million entries in /var/log/everything/current that look like this: [dhcpcd]: dhcpStop: ioctl SIOCSIFADDR: Bad file descriptor [dhcpcd]: dhcpStop: ioctl SIOCSIFFLAGS: Bad file descriptor [dhcpcd]: terminating on signal 4 What do they mean and what can I do to fix it? I have tried with two different NIC's, none of them work, but they both work in win95, which is installed on the computer. Thanks in advance. Christian You could try giving the machine a fixed ip by editing /etc/conf.d/net and see if it works then. If not, then dhcp is not the problem. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
