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PostPosted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 6:07 pm    Post subject: Network problem: NICs won't rise and have MAC 000000000000 Reply with quote

Ok, I'll have to admit - I'm stuck. I have Sun Netra X1 and I'm trying to install Gentoo on it, to make it a decent firewall. But I have a problem, while I can't get the network up on Linux - both NIC's are showing MAC-address 00:00:00:00:00:00. I can associate IP-address on a NIC, but I can't lift it up, ifconfig eth0 up says SIOCSIFFLAGS: Invalid argument. I don't know if the cards have been disabled somehow or is it just a problem with the Linux driver (FreeBSD gets the nics up, but I honestly don't have bounds of interest to study pf, while I already have fully working configs for Netfilter/IPtables and I know how it works). It's not the traditional same-MACs-on-SPARC-syndrome (yep, I tested the local-mac-address -setting, no use).

Any help available, I'll grant a thank.

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 1:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi,

How did you configure the driver, is it external module or from the kernel?

Do you have the interface up with the installation CD?
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 1:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mamac wrote:
Hi,

How did you configure the driver, is it external module or from the kernel?

Do you have the interface up with the installation CD?


No, the problem exists with the installation CD, so I haven't actually configured nor installed the system yet. But after reading your post I just realized I actually have universal installation CD, so it might inhold stage-tarball and portage snapshot.. Damn, I'm too used to install over network :P.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 1:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If the gentoo CD doesn't support your card you can give a try to just any other livecd (e.g. ubuntu), see if network works and install from there.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 10:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gentoo CD does support the card - it has modules for it etc, MACs just show 00:00:00:00:00:00 and the cards won't rise. I installed Gentoo manually (transferred the needed tarballs with USB-stick), and managed to get the network up. Then I bolted the harddisks to where they belong, removed the CD-ROM drive, closed the lid and booted the system back up - and once again I'm lacking MACs.

I'm currently checking my kernel config, there's some faults from the first run, after that I'll get back fighting with the network.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 6:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Also this post seems rather old, I have the same problem. But I think I know why I have it :)
My NICs lack of MAC after resetting my NVRAM caused by a password problem, which I fixed using a second, blank, NVRAM.

So my actual NVRAM has an invalid HostID and "forgets" every boot the MAC... I think there is a connection
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