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 06:50:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 06:49:54 -0400 Received: from gnu.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.4]:63249 "EHLO gnu.in-berlin.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 06:49:45 -0400 X-Envelope-From: news@bytesex.org To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: kraxel From: Gerd Knorr Newsgroups: lists.linux.kernel Subject: Re: HW ethernet address problems with 8139too and 2.4.9 Date: 30 Aug 2001 10:17:19 GMT Organization: SuSE Labs, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Au=DFenstelle?= Berlin Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <15820.999163539@www56.gmx.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost X-Trace: bytesex.org 999166639 4298 127.0.0.1 (30 Aug 2001 10:17:19 GMT) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.0 (Linux) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.