Subject: RE: Network Interface
To: Craig Beasland <craig@hotmix.com.au>
From: Rex McMaster <rmcm@compsoft.com.au>
List: port-sparc
Date: 08/25/1999 16:43:29
If required, you can get a new NVRAM from Craig Dewick
http://www.zeta.org.au/~craig/srk/srk_nvram.html
David Brownlee writes in repsonse to Craig Beasland:
> Your NVRAM is dead, and your ethernet address has been set to
> 'all ones', which coincidently is the ethernet broadcast address.
> SunOS and early version of NetBSD use this value without testing,
> which, although convenient in some cases, is Just Plain Wrong.
>
> You will need to plug in some values using the PROM - see
> http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html
>
> (This is cc'ed to www@netbsd.org, to be added to the NetBSD/sparc
> FAQ on www.netbsd.org :)
>
> David/absolute
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