From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 05 Jul 2005 17:49:34 +0100 (BST) Received: from host157-65.pool8257.interbusiness.it ([IPv6:::ffff:82.57.65.157]:43249 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 5 Jul 2005 17:49:07 +0100 Received: by localhost.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 501) id AAE1D110F1C; Tue, 5 Jul 2005 20:48:56 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: 2.6.12 does not read MAC address From: Michele Carla` To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org In-Reply-To: <42CA9FF3.8060504@total-knowledge.com> References: <200507051643.09070.arianna@dsi.unimi.it> <42CA9FF3.8060504@total-knowledge.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 20:48:56 +0200 Message-Id: <1120589336.3117.5.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 8350 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: goldfinger@member.fsf.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips 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. > > > > > > > > >