3c59x gives HWaddr FF:FF:...

["J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>]

Hi all...

I have just switched the network card for my internal network from a 8139
to a 3c905C-TX/TX-M. The 3c59x driver gives the buggy FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
hardware address for the adapter. I had heard about the problem and looked
throug LKML archives, but they just point to a non existen web page.
I use 2.4.21-pre6+aa.

What happens ? Any solution available ?

Info:
werewolf:~# lspci -vx -s 00:12.0
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 74)
        Subsystem: 3Com Corporation 3C905C-TX Fast Etherlink for PC Management NIC
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
        I/O ports at ec00 [size=128]
        Memory at febfef80 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
        Expansion ROM at feba0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
00: b7 10 00 92 17 01 10 a2 74 00 00 02 08 40 00 00
10: 01 ec 00 00 80 ef bf fe 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 b7 10 00 10
30: 00 00 ba fe dc 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 05 01 0a 0a

werewolf:~# modprobe 3c59x debug=4
/var/log/syslog:
Mar 28 15:45:05 werewolf kernel: 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
Mar 28 15:45:05 werewolf kernel: See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt
Mar 28 15:45:05 werewolf kernel: 00:12.0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado at 0xec00. Vers LK1.1.16
Mar 28 15:45:05 werewolf kernel:  ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, IRQ 5
Mar 28 15:45:05 werewolf kernel:   product code ffff rev ffff.15 date 15-31-127
Mar 28 15:45:05 werewolf kernel: Full duplex capable
Mar 28 15:45:05 werewolf kernel:   Internal config register is ffffffff, transceivers 0xffff.
Mar 28 15:45:05 werewolf kernel:   1024K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/<invalid transceiver> interface.
Mar 28 15:45:05 werewolf kernel:   Enabling bus-master transmits and early receives.
Mar 28 15:45:05 werewolf kernel: 00:12.0: scatter/gather enabled. h/w checksums enabled

Relevant dmesg:

3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt
00:12.0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado at 0xec00. Vers LK1.1.16
 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, IRQ 5
  product code ffff rev ffff.15 date 15-31-127
Full duplex capable
  Internal config register is ffffffff, transceivers 0xffff.
  1024K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/<invalid transceiver> interfac
e.
  Enabling bus-master transmits and early receives.
00:12.0: scatter/gather enabled. h/w checksums enabled
eth1: command 0x5800 did not complete! Status=0xffff
eth1: command 0x2804 did not complete! Status=0xffff
eth1: command 0x5800 did not complete! Status=0xffff
eth1: command 0x2804 did not complete! Status=0xffff
eth1: command 0x3002 did not complete! Status=0xffff
eth1: command 0x3002 did not complete! Status=0xffff
eth1: command 0x3002 did not complete! Status=0xffff
eth1: command 0x3002 did not complete! Status=0xffff
eth1: command 0x5800 did not complete! Status=0xffff
eth1: command 0x2804 did not complete! Status=0xffff

Any suggestion ?

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