Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Systemkennung Linux <> | | Subject | Re: 2.1.21 bugs.. | | Date | Mon, 20 Jan 1997 14:02:35 +0100 (MET) |
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Hi,
> Believe it or not, I once found a PCMCIA Ethernet card which seems to > pick an Ethernet address by probing the net or similar; it would > usually pick 00:00:00:00:00:00 or 00:00:00:00:00:01 or something > equivalent... needless to say, I banned the bloody thing from my net > immediately...
I can't believe someone really makes such an effort. Rather I suppose that just the card's NVRAM containing the Ethernet address has never been initilalized at factory or been overwritten. I had this problem with the RM200 which SNI generously loaned me for porting Linux/MIPS to. Solution for that machine was to reprogram the EEPROM using a utility available (but undocumented ...) in the firmware. A funny utility because it allows you even to change serial numbers and more ...
Ralf
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