Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:26:06 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 8139too.c patch to allow setting of MAC address to actually work. |
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Ben Greear wrote: > > This was gleaned from conversations with Donald Becker w/regard > to why: ifconfig eth1 hw ether a:b:c:d:e:f > fails to work with the RTL drivers. > > This fixes the problem, at least on my machine: > > (The new line has ### in front of it..) > > 8139too.c, line 1229, from kernel 2.4.prerelease: > > /* Check that the chip has finished the reset. */ > for (i = 1000; i > 0; i--) > if ((RTL_R8 (ChipCmd) & CmdReset) == 0) > break; > > /* Restore our idea of the MAC address. */ > ### RTL_W8_F (Cfg9346, 0xC0); /* Fix provided by Becker */ > RTL_W32_F (MAC0 + 0, cpu_to_le32 (*(u32 *) (dev->dev_addr + 0))); > RTL_W32_F (MAC0 + 4, cpu_to_le32 (*(u32 *) (dev->dev_addr + 4))); > > The 2.2.18 driver is broken too, but I think Donald is going to send > the fixes for it.
I have updated 8139too to include this and other changes. The new version can be downloaded from the SourceForge project page (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/), and hopefully it should show up in a release kernel eventually...
Jeff
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