On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 09:34:38AM -0500, Martin, Eric wrote:
Also, you might want to remove the HARDWARE line from that file. It should just use the mac from your network card. Maybe the router doesn't want to assign FF:FF:FF...a mac address?
The HWADDR line just matches up the given mac address to an interface name (eth0) so the system will configure the correct NIC when there is more than one. It can be safely removed in most cases, especially when there is only one NIC in the system. You can't work with an all FF mac address, since that represents the broadcast address in Ethernet. Something is wrong with the ethernet card, or the driver isn't supporting the card properly. Right after booting up Linux, get this output: dmesg | grep eth It should show the ethernet card driver being loaded.