[FC2] Unable to shut down prism54 card's interface

[Satish Balay]

On Thu, 20 May 2004, Philip A. Chapman wrote:

> Everyone,
> 
> I have a generic min-pci card in my laptop that uses the prism54
> module.  The interface is set up as eth1.  I have eth1 set up so that it
> does not start on boot.  I can start the interface using:
> 
>    ifup eth1
> 
> with no issues.  However, when I try to deactivate the interface using:
> 
>    ifdown eth1
> 
> I get the following error:
> 
>    Device eth1 has different MAC address than expected, ignoring.

HWADDR must be set incorrectly in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1

Try removing it (manually or using system-config-network)

Satish