[H-GEN] ethernet IO address

[Martin Pool]

On Fri, Nov 27, 1998 at 01:26:37AM +0000, Luke Grant wrote:
> ok...i am stumped.....though prolly through stupidity.
> 
> i have a western digital SMC ethernet card and on bootuo it configures to
> IRQ=3 IO=0x280  (which is right) and all my IP settings are ok
> 
> 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0
> network 192.168.0.0
> broadcast 192.168.0.255
> 
> but when i tried to ping another machine on the network.....no go.

> ....dum de dum....run ifconfig again...and the same :(

Make sure the module was actually reinitialized after you changed the
settings.  Reboots are for upgrades, so just do

  # lsmod
  # rmmod wd			# or whatever
  # lsmod
  # insmod wd irq=3 io=0x280

This is really nothing to do with ifconfig... it's kind of at a lower
level in the kernel.  ifconfig just happens to display the information
because it can.

HTH,

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