Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Oct 2006 15:11:30 -0400 | From | "John W. Linville" <> | Subject | Re: forcedeth net driver: reverse mac address after pxe boot |
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On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 10:29:04AM -0700, Ayaz Abdulla wrote: > This has been fixed in version "243.0537". You will have to request an > updated BIOS from your board vendor.
Ayaz,
Can you explain the whole "reverse-order MAC address" thing? Why/how does it end-up in that register backwards in the first place? Does it serve some purpose that way? Or is it just a bug that we have to live with?
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