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From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Subject: Re: r8169 MAC addresses broken
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:45:27 +0100
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Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> writes:

>> Same thing if you unplug the battery ?
>
> Thanks, now it seems to be OK.

Well, perhaps reverting that patch was a bit premature?

If removing battery fixes the problem then it's not the EEPROM.
Perhaps the chip can go into some VPD-zeroed state? The first
32-bits corruption seems unrelated to the patch, it still needs
bisecting or debugging, right?
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Krzysztof Halasa