From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ivan Vecera Subject: Re: r8169 MAC addresses broken Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:51:20 +0100 Message-ID: <49116C98.8010304@redhat.com> References: <490380C8.6070003@simon.arlott.org.uk> <4903947A.3060206@gmail.com> <20081025223443.GA30913@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <4904A7C5.7090801@gmail.com> <20081026174654.GB24790@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <4906E4BE.9050304@gmail.com> <490718C7.3010501@gmail.com> <490EBE83.7030309@redhat.com> <490F0FCF.4060905@gmail.com> <49109946.7020702@redhat.com> <4910BA41.5020709@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Big5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Krzysztof Halasa , Francois Romieu , Simon Arlott , Linux Kernel Mailing List , netdev , Edward Hsu , Arjan van de Ven To: Jiri Slaby Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:35468 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754414AbYKEJvm (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Nov 2008 04:51:42 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4910BA41.5020709@gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Jiri Slaby wrote: > Ivan Vecera napsal(a): >> Francois has fix for this problem (zeroed MAC address) in his repository: >> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/romieu/netdev-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=9b1abbccf53ef1a1213b159d56257b535c599f07 > > I've applied the 2 patches with this result: > 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 0000:06:00.0: irq 43 for MSI/MSI-X > r8169 0000:06:00.0: Missing EEPROM signature: 00000000 > eth0: RTL8168b/8111b at 0xffffc20000038000, 00:18:f3:f8:e1:ca, XID 38000000 > IRQ 43 So, no MAC was read from EEPROM but it's is correct. Please try to change MAC address by ifconfig or ip and then reboot (no power-off). What's in dmesg now? Ivan