Re: Networking problem

2003-11-09 Thread Patrick Morris
This is standard behavior for Sun hardware. If it's causing you problems (and it really shouldn't, if both cards are plugged into different networks), you can use the ifconfig command to set a MAC address manually. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have just install a new network card on my

Re: Networking problem

2003-11-09 Thread Daniel van Eeden
just change the nvram parameter local-mac-address? Daniel van Eeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Patrick Morris wrote: This is standard behavior for Sun hardware. If it's causing you problems (and it really shouldn't, if both cards are plugged into different networks), you can use the ifconfig command

Re: Networking problem

2003-11-09 Thread Andrew Clayton
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 13:39, Daniel van Eeden wrote: just change the nvram parameter local-mac-address? Unfortunately Linux doesn't take any notice of this...

Re: Networking problem

2003-11-09 Thread Blars Blarson
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 13:39, Daniel van Eeden wrote: just change the nvram parameter local-mac-address? Unfortunately Linux doesn't take any notice of this... It's not a Linux problem, local-mac-address only works when the hardware actually

Re: Linux on a Sun Enterprise 5000?

2003-11-09 Thread Steven Wilcoxon
Sounds like SILO needs to be updated as to the boot device. If your previous install is configured for /dev/sda and the drive shows as something else (like /dev/sdb) it won't boot. Of course, I'm speaking from experiance booting Debian directly, not using a tftpboot, but I think the problem is