From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <mailgate@hometree.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A return to PCI ordering problems...
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 11:29:37 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9tg371$ja3$1@forge.intermeta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011120190316.H19738@vnl.com> <2048.1006291657@redhat.com> <E166TCM-0004VH-00@lilac.csi.cam.ac.uk>
James A Sutherland <jas88@cam.ac.uk> writes:
>On Tuesday 20 November 2001 9:27 pm, David Woodhouse wrote:
>> amon@vnl.com said:
>> > In any case, here is the problem:
>> > NIC on motherboard, Realtek
>> > NIC on PCI card, Realtek
>> > Monolithic (no-module) kernel
>> > Motherboard must be set to eth0
>>
>> Why must the motherboard be set to eth0? Why not just configure it as it
>> gets detected?
>He has some software licensing thing which checks the MAC address of eth0.
>Of course, what he could do is change the MAC address of eth0 to whatever the
>licensing software wants... :-)
One could imagine a module to read the MAC address from the eeprom and
not from the Interface.. Makes this scenario not impossible but much
harder.
Regards
Henning
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-21 11:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-20 19:03 A return to PCI ordering problems Dale Amon
2001-11-20 20:03 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-11-20 19:51 ` Tim Hockin
2001-11-20 20:13 ` Faux Pas III
2001-11-20 21:20 ` Dale Amon
2001-11-20 21:58 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-20 21:49 ` David Woodhouse
2001-11-20 22:02 ` Dale Amon
2001-11-20 22:04 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-11-20 21:27 ` David Woodhouse
2001-11-20 21:47 ` Dale Amon
2001-11-21 9:27 ` Helge Hafting
2001-11-21 12:52 ` Christer Weinigel
2001-11-21 8:57 ` James A Sutherland
2001-11-21 9:20 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-21 11:29 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen [this message]
2001-11-21 11:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-11-21 12:10 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-11-21 13:51 ` James A Sutherland
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