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. jgarzik was involved in Real Life(tm) and not working last week... It should be in pre11. - : 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