Hello Soren, Am 18:54 2003-01-25 +0000 hat Soren A geschrieben:
> 3Com PCI 3c905C "Tornado" at 0x3000 vers.LK1.1.16 >whatever all that means. YES you can !!! I do not know exactly how, but I asume that your laptop use a pcmcia-NIC which you can not change... like my 3c589D-Combo. But you can change your 3c905C in your PC, - if you run Linux there ! I do not know exactly how, but you must set your 3c905C to the same as the pcmcia-NIC. >WHEN is the proper time in the initialization chain for bringing up the >network (and everything else) to try to issue a command to the NIC? I think >this must have something to do with /etc/init.d and files in the rc.X >hierarchy. WHERE is the file that issues the command to load the driver Hmmm, there was someone for more then two years which had told me, that I must change the MAC after the NIC was loaded and before the the Network is initialized... >(which is a module, I've confirmed that support for my NIC is built as a >module in my kernel, by doing 'lsmod')? HOW is the invocation to be done -- >I've seen it suggested that something like should work: > > root$ ifconfig eth0 [IP-address] [optnetstuff] \ #line cont. > hw ether AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF > >Is this the right style in which to specify the MAC numerically? I do not know >Thanks. Debian still rocks, never did I dream of being able to use a >computer with so much access to all the internals of the platform. These >temporary troubles will be overcome... ;-)) And after the Weekend... (I like Windows-WORM's) Michelle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
