On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 07:12:10PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: > > The CSR contains garbage after a coldboot on RS/6000. > One some systems (like my 44p 270) the MAC address is all FF, > on others (like my B50) it is ff:ff:ff:fd:ff:6b. > > It can eventually be fixed by loading pcnet32, set the interface > into the UP state, rmmod pcnet32 and load it again. But this worked > only on the 270. > > Only netbooting after a cold start provides the correct MAC address > via prom and CSR. This makes it very unreliable. > I dont know why the MAC is stored in two different places. Remove > the special case for powerpc, which was added in early 2.4 development. > > Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This patch seems familiar...did it get proposed and rejected before? If so, why was that? If not, well, perhaps I need a soda or something... :-) John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
