ifconfig mystery card

Jerry McAllister jerrymc at clunix.cl.msu.edu
Wed Nov 9 22:27:53 GMT 2005


> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm configuring an old network card in a 5.4 install, and I have no idea 
> what it is (got it from a friend, no documentation or labels, etc.)
> 
> running ifconfig I see (besides my localhost lo0 entry):
> 
> x10: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>     options=9<RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU>
>     ether 00:01:03:20:d5:fd
>     media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
>     status: no carrier
> 
> and yet, running ifconfig x10 i get
> 
> "ifconfig: interface x10 does not exist"
> 
> Hmm ... what am I missing?

Any chance that there is a confusion between a letter 'l' and 
numeral '1' in the name?

////jerry

> 
> - JK
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