[Sunhelp] Ethernet Foibles on an IPX

[Richard Lacroix]

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Hi,

Did you the PowerMac ethernet interface ?





"Barnett-Lewis, William" wrote:

> I asked this before on Rescue, but no answer. Perhaps someone here will have
> an idea?
>
> I have an IPX, running Solaris 7,  that I have connected via a transceiver
> and twisted-pair crossover cable to my PowerMac. I run a dhcp server
> software on the Mac and use ifconfig to tell the IPX where to get it's
> address. This worked fine. Then tonight, I log in as root and ifconfig says
> that "le0: no such interface" Reboot. Samething. Reboot -r. Samething.
> Shutdown to prom. "Test /sbus/le" comes back with both internal and external
> loopback ok. hmm. Go to my work office. Test both transceiver and cable.
> Both work fine. Obviously I'm missing something here. Any help would be
> greatly appreciated.
> Thanks in advance,
> William
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> William Barnett-Lewis  mailto://wlewis@mailbag.com
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