I had this problem once and it turned out it was the ethernet card wasn't
configured properly, i.e I hadn't loaded the driver, but once I recompiled the
kernal with the correct driver, no problem. I was getting the same erro
messages at boot time. Apart from that I don't know,

cheers

Johann

�ystein Folkvord wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I am using redhat 5.0, and I am trying to connecmy box to the LAN.
> However, I get some stupid error message when I try to use ifconfig, and I
> wondered if any of you could tell me what this means
>
> [root@bernt /root]#ifconfig eth0 129.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.255 up
> SIOCSIFADDR: Operation not supported by device
> SIOCSIFNETMASK: Operation not supported by device
>
> (yes, the ip's are not the ones I use)
>
> I am using Kernel 2.0.32 if that can help.
>
> Is there anyone who knows anything about this  ?
>
> �



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