Messages in this thread |  | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: 2.1.21 bugs.. | Date | Mon, 20 Jan 1997 10:05:33 -0800 (PST) |
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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 >
You'd think so, but the Ethernet address changed sometimes...
-hpa
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