From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 14:04:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 14:04:00 -0400 Received: from mailout01.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.80]:57103 "EHLO mailout01.sul.t-online.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 14:03:48 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Hans-Christian Armingeon To: Gerd Knorr , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: HW ethernet address problems with 8139too and 2.4.9 Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 20:10:40 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] In-Reply-To: <15820.999163539@www56.gmx.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01083020104000.00903@gundi> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday, 30. August 2001 12:17, Gerd Knorr wrote: > Hans-Christian Armingeon wrote: > > Hi gurus, > > I've got a problem with an Elitegroup K7AMA onboard rtl8139C LAN. > > ifconfig shows me the hardware address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff. So I'm not > > able to get an tcp/ip connection. Under w2k professional everything > > works fine. > > Any suggestions? > > The f*** rtl windows driver does that. You can do: I didn't run windows before that on the system, the processor was a "virgin" > > (1) stop booting windows > (2) ifconfig eth0 hw ether ... at a reasonable place in the boot > scripts > > Gerd