> On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 10:31:42AM +0530 or sometime in the same epoch, Prasanta Sadhukhan scribbled:
> > Hi,
> > Our cardbus driver supports LAA but when
> > we are giving this command 'ifconfig tr0 hw tr 4000DEADBEEF' but we are
> > getting
> > SIOCSIFHWADDR: Invalid argument
> >
> > Is there any prerequisites fot this command to be given?
> >
>
> There is a requirement for certain bit in the MSB to be set, bit 6 of 7
> iirc.
>
> Also, there is an issue with ifconfig and TR. During the 2.3 dev kernels
> we changed the IEEE type of TR from 6 to a value in the 800 range. This
> was done when multicast support was added as we needed to split out TR
> from the other 802 protocols.
>
> ifconfig and friends didn't realize this and barf because the return
> type is wrong. I've tried submitting patches to net-tools for this
> several times, but it wasn't fixed. It may be by now, but don't quote me
> on it.
But the LAA feature was working in RH 7.1 which is kernel 2.4.2-2
So why suddenly this feature is returning Invalid argument in 7.2 7.3 and 8.0.
Does it mean SIOCSIFHWADDR is not supported in the kernel
>
>
> Mike Phillips
> Linux Token Ring Project
> http://www.linuxtr.net
>
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