Re: [Linux-decnet-user] Fwd: DECnet & Kernel 2.4

[Patrick C. <pa...@pa...>]

On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 08:51:36PM +0000, Eduardo Serrat wrote:
> 
> Hi Josef,
> 
> 
> >From: "J.Heinen" <J.H...@fz...>
> >To: ems...@ge...
> >Subject: DECnet & Kernel 2.4
> >Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 16:08:26 +0200
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >we are using your DECnet programs under Linux 2.2.16 without
> >any problems on a Pentium II with a DEC Tulip card. Great!
> >
> >Now we tried to use the latest 2.4 kernel. When we run the
> >startnet programm, we receive the following error message:
> >
> >sysctl(set exec dev): No such device
> >


The quickest thing is to remove startnet altogether because it's not
really needed for 2.4 kernels. However you will need to set the MAC
address manually if you do this, even for a tulip card.

If you're using modules, make sure that the module for the tulip is
loaded before startnet is run too.

Patrick