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ifupdown package

  1. Bug #109725
  2. Comment #20

Comment 20 for bug 109725

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Stefan Sauer (ensonic) wrote :

I just installed 8.10 on a laptop that has sis900 for ethernet. Network does not work as hw address is 00:00:00:00:00:00.
When I do
fconfig eth0 hw ether 01:23:45:67:89:ab
I get
SIOCSIFHWADDR: cannot assign requested address

see also:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11649