Re: Issues with smsc95xx driver since a049a30fc27c

[Markus Reichl <m.reichl@fivetechno.de>]

Am 18.12.21 um 21:33 schrieb Gabriel Hojda:
> On 2021-12-18 20:32, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>>> O.K, stab in the dark. Does the hardware need to be programmed with
>>> the MAC address? When does this happen? If this is going wrong, it
>>> could explain the promisc mode. If the MAC address has not been
>>> programmed, it has no idea what packets are for itself. Put it into
>>> promisc mode, and it will receive everything, including what it is
>>> supposed to receive. But looking at the offending patch, it is not
>>> obvious how it has anything to do with MAC addresses. The only
>>> unbalanced change in that patch is that smsc95xx_reset(dev) has
>>> disappeared, not moved to somewhere else.
>>
>> Ah!
>>
>> smsc95xx_reset() calls smsc95xx_set_mac_address(). So that fits.
>> smsc95xx_reset() is also called in smsc95xx_bind(), but maybe that is
>> not enough?
>>
>>     Andrew
> hi Andrew,
> 
> the odroid-u3 has no preconfigured mac address. the kernel from the vendor is 
> patched to read a file in /etc and set the mac address read from it. with the 
> mainline kernel the interface gets a random mac address that can later be changed 
> by NetworkManager & Co. (as far as i know there's no 
> "smsc95xx.macaddr=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx" kernel boot parameter).
> 
> u-boot should be able to set the mac addreess, but it doesn't even detect the 
> network interface and i get a message like "No NET interface" (even though i've 
> tried the steps at 
> https://github.com/ARM-software/u-boot/blob/master/doc/README.odroid).
> 
> Gabriel

Hi,

same issue on odroid-x2 which has no preconfigured mac address either.

I use plain Debian buster and bullseye with traditional
/etc/network/interfaces

auto eth0
     allow-hotplug eth0
     iface eth0 inet dhcp
         hwaddress ether c2:c5:aa:9e:aa:55
     iface eth0 inet6 dhcp


Gruß,
-- 
Markus Reichl