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From: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: HW ethernet address problems with 8139too and 2.4.9
Date: 30 Aug 2001 10:17:19 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrn9os4lf.469.kraxel@bytesex.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15820.999163539@www56.gmx.net>

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:

(1) stop booting windows
(2) ifconfig eth0 hw ether ...  at a reasonable place in the boot
    scripts

  Gerd

-- 
Damn lot people confuse usability and eye-candy.

  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-30 10:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-30  9:25 HW ethernet address problems with 8139too and 2.4.9 Hans-Christian Armingeon
2001-08-30 10:17 ` Gerd Knorr [this message]
2001-08-30 18:10   ` Hans-Christian Armingeon

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