I don't think this will be fixed. If the MAC address is invalid, what is the driver to do? Other things can break if the kernel driver accepts the invalid data.
I have blogged about my experience and hack for it at http://davehall.com.au/blog/dave/2008/02/10/flakey-bios-gigabyte-ga- m68sm-s2l-makes-mac-address-change-reboot I think that this really should be marked as a "kernel bug", as it is the kernel driver doing this, not udev. If only launchpad allowed you to file hardware bugs and they were sent to the appropriate vendor ... -- Ethernet device's number increases by one after every reboot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/153727 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
