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SubjectRe: 82559 driver bug
Greg,

On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 11:42:11PM -0700, Greg Zhang wrote:
> 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?

It's not a bug and shouldn't be fixed.
The address set by `ifconfig hw' is a part of run-time system configuration,
and should stay as it.
If you want to change EEPROM, do it.
Take EEPROM update utility (e.g. from http://scyld.com/) and write what you
want.

Best regards
Andrey V.
Savochkin
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