2.6.12 does not read MAC address

2.6.12 does not read MAC address

[Arianna Arona]

Hi everybody,

my network problem are now due to MAC address.
Kernel does not read it and forcing the value via ifconfig does not solve the 
problem.

I need to merge the old driver, which detects MAC addr but eth0 link is down,
with the new one that does the contraty..... opsss.... I could have a not 
working at all driver.... :((

A.

-- 
Arianna Arona
Servizi Informatici
Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione
Via Comelico 39
20135 Milano

Re: 2.6.12 does not read MAC address

[Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh]

Yes, kerenl doesn't read mac address correctly on O2K. Some timeing
issue in the driver
as far as I can tell. None of my kernels ever could read it on O2K, even
though it works
just fine on O200.

No you are wrong. Forcing MAC address works just fine. At least it does
so here.
You just have to force it to correct value (i.e. the one origin was
using when it
was sending bootp/tftp packets.

Look at the logs at your boot server.

--
Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh
Total Knowledge, CTO
http://www.total-knowledge.com/

Arianna Arona wrote:

>Hi everybody,
>
>my network problem are now due to MAC address.
>Kernel does not read it and forcing the value via ifconfig does not solve the 
>problem.
>
>I need to merge the old driver, which detects MAC addr but eth0 link is down,
>with the new one that does the contraty..... opsss.... I could have a not 
>working at all driver.... :((
>
>A.
>
>  
>

Re: 2.6.12 does not read MAC address

[Arianna Arona]

On Tuesday 05 July 2005 16:57, Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh wrote:
>
> No you are wrong. Forcing MAC address works just fine. At least it does
> so here.
> You just have to force it to correct value (i.e. the one origin was
> using when it was sending bootp/tftp packets.

I've forced it using: ifconfig eth0 hw ether 08:00:69:0d:16:00,
where 08:00:69:0d:16:00 is MAC address.
After that ifconfig command has right values, but no bits are transmitted.
The one I've used is the right way?

A.



-- 
Arianna Arona
Servizi Informatici
Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione
Via Comelico 39
20135 Milano

Re: 2.6.12 does not read MAC address

[Michele Carla`]

On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 07:57 -0700, Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh wrote:
> Yes, kerenl doesn't read mac address correctly on O2K. Some timeing
> issue in the driver
> as far as I can tell. None of my kernels ever could read it on O2K, even
> though it works
> just fine on O200.
> 
> No you are wrong. Forcing MAC address works just fine. At least it does
> so here.

it doesn't works also for me... I have not tried last kernel, but as
soon as possible I'm going to do it !

(some times it recognise menet MAC addresses, but it doesn't works)

> You just have to force it to correct value (i.e. the one origin was
> using when it
> was sending bootp/tftp packets.
> 
> Look at the logs at your boot server.
> 
> --
> Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh
> Total Knowledge, CTO
> http://www.total-knowledge.com/
> 
> Arianna Arona wrote:
> 
> >Hi everybody,
> >
> >my network problem are now due to MAC address.
> >Kernel does not read it and forcing the value via ifconfig does not solve the 
> >problem.
> >
> >I need to merge the old driver, which detects MAC addr but eth0 link is down,
> >with the new one that does the contraty..... opsss.... I could have a not 
> >working at all driver.... :((
> >
> >A.
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 
>