> Is that enough for you? > i.e. you must first set the mac address, then ifup. That's perfect - and that's the way I intended my patch to work also. mac address must be set when ethX is down, else you'll get EBUSY back. Thanks, I'll look for code in .20-pre10 release. Nat On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 13:44, Manfred Spraul wrote: > I think we have fixed the problems in 2.5.41: > - the eeprom timeout warning was conditional, and by default off. Now > they are always printed. > - dev->addr is copied in netdev_open to the driver registers. > That's what all other nics do. > > Is that enough for you? > i.e. you must first set the mac address, then ifup. > AFAICS with your patch supports ifup, then updating the mac address. > > jgarzik promised to forward the patch to marcelo, it should be in > 2.4.20-pre10. > > -- > Manfred > -- _________________________________________ Nat Ersoz Myrio Corporation -o) nat.ersoz@myrio.com Cell: 425-417-5182 /\\ Phone: 425.897.7278 Fax: 425.897.5600 _\_V 3500 Carillon Point Kirkland, WA 98033 - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html