On 30.06.2019 18:03, Karsten Wiborg wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> On 30/06/2019 16:55, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> Hi Karsten
>>
>> What MAC address do you get with the vendor driver? Is it the same MAC
>> address every time you reboot, or does it look random.
>>
>> The BIOS is expected to program the MAC address into the hardware. It
>> could be that the vendor driver is checking if the MAC address is
>> valid, and if not, picking a random MAC address. The mainline driver
>> does not do this.
>
> I programmed a static DHCP-entry on my local DHCP-server so I would
> notice if the MAC address changes. Just turned the computer back on and
> received the intended IP address, so the MAC address seems to stay the
> same with the vendor driver.
>
Vendor driver uses this code, do you see the related messages in syslog?
if (!is_valid_ether_addr(mac_addr)) {
netif_err(tp, probe, dev, "Invalid ether addr %pM\n",
mac_addr);
eth_hw_addr_random(dev);
ether_addr_copy(mac_addr, dev->dev_addr);
netif_info(tp, probe, dev, "Random ether addr %pM\n",
mac_addr);
tp->random_mac = 1;
}
> The vendor part of my MAC is 6e:69:73 which is interesting because
> according to some Vendor-Lookup-pages the vendor is unknown.
>
> Regards,
> Karsten
>
