On 2/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Hans-Werner Hilse</b> <<a href="mailto:hilse@web.de">hilse@web.de</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi,<br><br>On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:54:42 +0100 "Roman Naumann"<br><<a href="mailto:sapiens.dyslexia@googlemail.com">sapiens.dyslexia@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> Ifconfig eth0 gives me this:<br>> <br>> Link encap:<br>><br>> UNSPEC HWaddr 44-4F-C0-00-14-31-AC-10-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00<br>> [...]<br>> I'm pretty sure the Mac-Addr is too long.. that's weird,<br>> Also, when using Sabayon, the first line differs: "Link encap:ether" <br>> and the mac is correct<br>><br>> I tried to change the mac with:<br>> ifconfig eth0 hw ether 10:20:30:40:50:60<br>> but then, I get th following:<br>> SIOCSIFHWADDR: Invalid argument<br><br>eth0 doesn't seem to be what it has been anymore. You probably compiled <br>a new kernel with some extra network drivers (USB devices? Firewire?).<br>Looking at the "MAC" address above, I'd say it's something designated<br>for a peer-to-peer connection.<br><br>use "ifconfig -a" to find your real network interface. If it's not <br>shown there (under different name, of course), you're probably missing<br>the right modules. You might want to use udev to give your interfaces a<br>persistent naming in the future, that will save you these troubles. <br><br>-hwh<br><br><br>--<br><a href="mailto:gentoo-user@gentoo.org">gentoo-user@gentoo.org</a> mailing list<br><br></blockquote></div>thanks for your quick answer.<br> yes, there is a new interface named eth1 and it works.<br>(so it seems that this problem was caused by replacing coldplug with udev)<br>