Tigon3 driver, broadcom 5307, 440GP, working? (solved)

Cameron, Steve Steve.Cameron at hp.com
Sat Aug 10 02:21:51 EST 2002


I wrote:
> > I've been playing around with the tigon3 driver and a broadcom
> > 5307 [5703, I meant] gigabit NIC in my IBM ebony... No luck so far.
and
> Ok, I have determined that my problem lies in user-land, not
> the kernel.

Heh.  The reason it couldn't ping it's own IP address?
I forgot to ifconfig the loopback interface, duh.

	ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1

makes it all work.  (Sometimes the easy ones are the hardest.)
Thanks,
-- steve

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