> I've also noticed that the man page for plan9.ini(8), it says > >On the SiS controllers, the Ethernet address is not > >detected properly; specify it with an ea= attribute. > > Is ea= supposed to be set to the actual ip address (the man page says physical > network adress)? If so that's probably my problem.
ea is supposed to be an ethernet address. ethernet addresses have the format ea=112233445566 where 1-6 are *lowercase* hex digits. the first byte & 0x80 should be 0. - erik