From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Pyne Subject: Re: [patch 2/4] forcedeth: fix MAC address detection on network card (regression in 2.6.23) =?iso-8859-1?q?=00?= Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 21:06:27 -0500 Message-ID: <200802052106.36012.mpyne@purinchu.net> References: <200802050746.m157ktY9010399@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <47A8B558.7060605@garzik.org> <47A751F6.3030007@nvidia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1476200.t4yC2puYNs"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jeff Garzik , Andrew Morton , netdev@vger.kernel.org, michael.pyne@kdemail.net, LKML To: Ayaz Abdulla Return-path: Received: from hapkido.dreamhost.com ([66.33.216.122]:52178 "EHLO hapkido.dreamhost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758939AbYBFCJE (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 21:09:04 -0500 In-Reply-To: <47A751F6.3030007@nvidia.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --nextPart1476200.t4yC2puYNs Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 04 February 2008, Ayaz Abdulla wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Ayaz Abdulla wrote: > >> I believe Michael determined that a newer BIOS fixes this issue. > > > > That's a solution that makes vendors happy... but we still have to deal > > with it in Linux. There are plenty of the old broken BIOS still out in > > the field... > > > > Jeff > > Michael, can you provide which BIOS version had this issue and which > version fixed the issue? Ayaz, One of my earlier messages to the list was from BIOS revision F3 from what = I=20 can tell (which matches pretty well with what I remember having). I am=20 currently on F8. I may go back to F3 if I can get booting from USB to work just to verify=20 because I could have sworn it was still broken after going to F8. But sinc= e=20 unpatched Linux 2.6.23.12 apparently works fine and I'm not sure when exact= ly=20 that happened (I use Ketchup to maintain the sources and somewhere it=20 unpatched my forcedeth.c :) I want to double-check that a simple BIOS upgra= de=20 will solve it. But I also don't have a lot of time before I go underway for a few months. = :-/ Regards, - Michael Pyne --nextPart1476200.t4yC2puYNs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBHqRYrqjQYp5Omm0oRAvAiAKC9insSAx1QZ3gSdrzWqXHdLQdIQQCfZyf9 1mURTWfRPFp5Sel66amOXUc= =nZrB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1476200.t4yC2puYNs--