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From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: Re: ecinit on ifconfig
References: <BtHKpH.3Lx@ibmpcug.co.uk>
Date: 24 Aug 92 16:17:27 GMT
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In <BtHKpH.3Lx@ibmpcug.co.uk> adrian@ibmpcug.co.uk (Adrian Hall) writes:

>On running :-

>	ifconfig ec0 192.68.174.74

>My system displays the string "ecinit" underlined.

>Why does this come up? The tcp/ip seems to be working otherwise,
>and I hate messages coming up with no real explanation attached
>to them

>Adrian
>-- 
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Adrian Hall					Connect Systems Manager
>adrian@ibmpcug.co.uk				The IBM PC User Group
>Tel: +44 81 863 1191				Harrow, London, UK

Apparently a "scalpel" left in the code (ifconfig or ec-driver). Try
ifconfig with a redirection to /dev/null to identify whether it is in
the driver or in ifconfig.

Holger
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|  |   / Holger Veit             | INTERNET: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de
|__|  /  University of Duisburg  | BITNET: veit%du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de@UNIDO
|  | /   Dept. of Electr. Eng.   | "No, my programs are not BUGGY, these are
|  |/    Inst. f. Dataprocessing |          just unexpected FEATURES"