Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Greg Zhang" <> | Subject | 82559 driver bug | Date | Sun, 24 Sep 2000 23:42:11 -0700 |
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Hello,
I need to update the MAC address on a Intel 82559 ethernet card. Tried:
# ifconfig eth0 down # ifconfig eth0 hw ether0 xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx # ifconfig eth0 up
It seems to take effect. Ping works. I have not had time to verify whether the MAC address is changed on the wire.
When the machine was rebooted, the new MAC address was lost. This seems to be a bug in the 82559 driver. 82559 spec specifies how to manipulate its control and status register to write to the EEPROM that stores the MAC address. Before I write a program to do this, can someone confirm that this is a bug and it currently has no fix?
Thank you,
- Greg
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