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From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: r8169 MAC addresses broken
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 11:38:40 +0100
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Francois Romieu napsal(a):
> Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> :
> [...]
>> Ah, I thought I have broken hardware. I have similar problem, my mac is
>> initially all zeroes. When I set it up, it works until suspend. After that I
>> need to unbind the driver, bind it again, and it works then (mac is still the
>> set one).
>>
>> I'm out of the notebook right now, but it is 10ec:8168:
>> 06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI
>> Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)
>> 	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 11f5
>>
>> I used it perfectly far later than 2.6.24 (maybe 2.6.26?), 2.6.27 is yet
>> defunct.
> 
> 2.6.27 proper ? That's bad news.
> 
> Can you send a dmesg for 2.6.27 and 2.6.28-rc1 ?

2.6.28-rc1 doesn't boot, the rest of dmesgs is at:
http://decibel.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/r8169_mac/

However I may have a hw failure or some bug overwrote my eeprom, I see this
in current mmotm:
r8169 0000:06:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded
r8169 0000:06:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
r8169 0000:06:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
r8169: mac_version = 0x0c
r8169 0000:06:00.0: irq 43 for MSI/MSI-X
r8169: MAC address found in EEPROM: 00:00:00:00:00:00
eth0: RTL8168b/8111b at 0xffffc200042b0000, 00:00:00:00:00:00, XID 38000000
IRQ 43
r8169: mac_version = 0x0c

which looks like even in the eeprom are all zeroes now. Also 2.6.25 is
affected by this now and it worked (from_Jul dmesg).