Re: natsemi.c - patching for ifconfig hw ether

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> 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
> 
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