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Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:42:31 -0600
From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
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To: saadia dhouib <saadia_dhouib@yahoo.fr>
Subject: Re: ifconfig: SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device (xupv2p+ppc+linux
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saadia dhouib wrote:
> Device Tree Probing 'ethernet'
> xilinx_emac 40c00000.ethernet: no IRQ found.

This might be a problem.

> 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 ??

ifconfig eth0 172...

-Scott