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From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>,
	Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Edward Hsu <edward_hsu@realtek.com.tw>,
	Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: r8169 MAC addresses broken
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:42:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m31vy3jdgh.fsf@maximus.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <490448B0.8050307@gmail.com> (Jiri Slaby's message of "Sun\, 26 Oct 2008 11\:38\:40 +0100")

Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> writes:

> However I may have a hw failure or some bug overwrote my eeprom, I see this
> in current mmotm:
> r8169 0000:06:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
> r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded
> r8169 0000:06:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
> r8169 0000:06:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
> r8169: mac_version = 0x0c
> r8169 0000:06:00.0: irq 43 for MSI/MSI-X
> r8169: MAC address found in EEPROM: 00:00:00:00:00:00

Note there is no msg about missing EEPROM signature. I wonder what
exactly is in the EEPROM. A modified (and again reversed) "[PATCH 1/1]
r8169: revert "read MAC address from EEPROM on init" should be able to
show it.

There seem to be a DOS tool on RTL WWW to change the EEPROM data.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-26 20:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-25 20:25 r8169 MAC addresses broken Simon Arlott
2008-10-25 21:49 ` Jiri Slaby
2008-10-25 22:34   ` Francois Romieu
2008-10-25 23:55     ` Alistair John Strachan
2008-10-26 10:38     ` Jiri Slaby
2008-10-26 12:52       ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-10-26 15:01         ` Francois Romieu
2008-10-27 19:50         ` Simon Arlott
2008-10-28  9:12           ` Ivan Vecera
2008-10-26 20:42       ` Krzysztof Halasa [this message]
2008-10-26 17:24     ` Jiri Slaby
2008-10-26 17:34       ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-10-26 17:46       ` Francois Romieu
2008-10-28 10:09         ` Jiri Slaby
2008-10-28 13:45           ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-10-28 13:51             ` Jiri Slaby
2008-10-28 20:37               ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-11-03  9:04               ` Ivan Vecera
2008-11-03 14:50                 ` Jiri Slaby
2008-11-04 18:49                   ` Ivan Vecera
2008-11-04 21:10                     ` Jiri Slaby
2008-11-05  9:51                       ` Ivan Vecera

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