From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 05 Jul 2005 15:57:57 +0100 (BST) Received: from alpha.total-knowledge.com ([IPv6:::ffff:205.217.158.170]:9170 "EHLO alpha.total-knowledge.com") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 5 Jul 2005 15:57:36 +0100 Received: (qmail 27659 invoked from network); 5 Jul 2005 07:57:49 -0700 Received: from c-24-6-216-150.hsd1.ca.comcast.net (HELO ?192.168.0.238?) (24.6.216.150) by alpha.total-knowledge.com with SMTP; 5 Jul 2005 07:57:49 -0700 Message-ID: <42CA9FF3.8060504@total-knowledge.com> Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 07:57:55 -0700 From: "Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh" Organization: Total Knowledge User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050620) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arianna Arona CC: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: 2.6.12 does not read MAC address References: <200507051643.09070.arianna@dsi.unimi.it> In-Reply-To: <200507051643.09070.arianna@dsi.unimi.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 8348 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: ilya@total-knowledge.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips 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. > > >