Re: dead amd pc-net32 PCI: help!

Glynn Clements (glynn@sensei.co.uk)
Tue, 4 Aug 1998 16:04:14 +0100 (BST)


Max Klohn wrote:

> I noticed I am getting the following message at boot, just after the
> initialization of the amd pcnet32 netcard:
> (for memory: RH5.1, failed detection at first install script, driver manually
> installed after, fails pings and shows TX errors, but "sees" the wire with
> tcpdump)
>
> SIOCADDRT: invalid argument

The most likely reason for this message is that you have a route
command of the form:

route add ... gw xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx dev eth0

where the gateway isn't itself reachable.

You would need to check the scripts which initialise networking.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn@sensei.co.uk>
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