On Tue, 2 May 2000, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 02:18:51PM -0700, Srinivasa Prasad Thirumalachar
> wrote:
>
> > > Silly construction, I don't even know if the damn thing is actually
> > > broken or just the content got garbled. What's worse, PROM and IRIX
> > > refuse to set the eaddr in the NVRAM nor can I otherwise ifconfig the
> >
> > If the NVRAM is corrupted eaddr may not be set up. Try rebooting the
> > Indy, if the nvram is corrupted it will set it up with a set of
> > good defaults which can be changed.
>
> Basically my Indy is all back to defaults with exception of the eaddr
> which is filled with garbage that isn't a legal Ethernet address.
I have seen exactly the same behaviour on an Indy here. It seems like this is
a common problem. Do you think it would help with a new PROM?
Ulf
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