ifconfig: SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device (xupv2p+ppc+linux 2.6.27-rc)

[saadia dhouib]

Hi all,
I have installed the latest linux 2.6 version from xilinx tree. 
I have selected the following networking options: 
http://www.nabble.com/file/p20481642/Screenshot-7.png Screenshot-7.png 
And selected : Network device support:  Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)  ---> 
                                                                                                 
Generic Media Independent Interface device support   
                                                                                                 
Xilinx 10/100 OPB EMAC support
 Ethernet (1000 Mbit)  --->    
                                      Xilinx LLTEMAC 10/100/1000 Ethernet
MAC driver 

I booted the kernel with rfs on ramdisk:
zImage starting: loaded at 0x00400000 (sp: 0x006fdefc)
Allocating 0x3571b4 bytes for kernel ...
gunzipping (0x00000000 <- 0x0040c000:0x0058ccc3)...done 0x3345e8 bytes
Attached initrd image at 0x0058d000-0x006fcf20
initrd head: 0x1f8b0808

Linux/PowerPC load: console=ttyUL0,9600 root=/dev/ram rw ip=on
Finalizing device tree... flat tree at 0x40ae18
Using Xilinx Virtex machine description
Linux version 2.6.27-rc9 (dhouib at lo-lester-030) (gcc version 3.4.5) #34
PREEMPT Thu Nov 13 15:53:38 CET 2008
Found initrd at 0xc058d000:0xc06fcf20
Zone PFN ranges:
  DMA      0x00000000 -> 0x00010000
  Normal   0x00010000 -> 0x00010000
Movable zone start PFN for each node
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
    0: 0x00000000 -> 0x00010000
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 65024
Kernel command line: console=ttyUL0,9600 root=/dev/ram rw ip=on
Xilinx intc at 0x41200000 mapped to 0xfdfff000
PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 4096 bytes)
clocksource: timebase mult[d55555] shift[22] registered
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
console [ttyUL0] enabled
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Memory: 254652k/262144k available (3124k kernel code, 7176k reserved, 128k
data, 136k bss, 156k init)
Calibrating delay loop... 598.01 BogoMIPS (lpj=1196032)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
net_namespace: 756 bytes
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
TCP reno registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an
initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 1471k freed
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir at monad.swb.de).
msgmni has been set to 500
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
Serial: 8250/16550 driver4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
40600000.serial: ttyUL0 at MMIO 0x40600003 (irq = 16) is a uartlite
brd: module loaded
loop: module loaded
Device Tree Probing 'ethernet'
xilinx_emac 40c00000.ethernet: no IRQ found.
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
i2c /dev entries driver
TCP cubic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 17
RPC: Registered udp transport module.
RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
IP-Config: No network devices available.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Freeing unused kernel memor### Application running ...
root:~> ifconfig 
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

root:~> ifconfig 172.25.49.123 netmask 255.255.255.0
ifconfig: SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
root:~> ### Application running ...



My question is: why I can't assign an IP address ??

Thanks
Saadia
                             
 


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