Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: forcedeth net driver: reverse mac address after pxe boot | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Wed, 04 Oct 2006 18:30:49 +0100 |
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Ar Mer, 2006-10-04 am 17:19 +0100, ysgrifennodd Alex Owen: > The obvious fix for this is to try and read the MAC address from the > canonical location... ie where is the source of the address writen > into the controlers registers at power on? But do we know where that > may be?
Why not check if the first or last 3 bytes are the Nvidia owner bits. The only card that will misdetect is
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which doesn't matter anyway
Alan
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