From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Chan" Subject: Re: Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 6401] New: tg3 hardware address issue Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:21:44 -0700 Message-ID: <1145305304.3677.4.camel@rh4> References: <20060417141715.30afbdd8.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, zef@cektek.net, "bugme-daemon@kernel-bugs.osdl.org" Return-path: Received: from mms1.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.17]:31500 "EHLO mms1.broadcom.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751324AbWDQWCD (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Apr 2006 18:02:03 -0400 To: "Andrew Morton" In-Reply-To: <20060417141715.30afbdd8.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 14:17 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Right now I am using the tg3.c contained in linus's git tree with a 2.6.15 > kernel because this driver version (3.56) seems to be least broken, or atleast > hides it best. The reason it hides it best is because the is_valid_ether_addr() is somewhat broken in 2.6.15. tg3 continues to load despite the invalid MAC address of ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff. Please send the output of lspci -vvvxxx -s0:3:0.0 and lspci -vvvxxx - s0:4:0.0. Thanks.