On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 donw@examen.com wrote: > Kernel is linux 2.6.2; driver version is LK1.1.19. OK, but what's the user-level ? Fedora Core by any chance ? If so, could you disable kudzu (chkconfig kudzu off), reboot, and try again ? > I am unable to even connect the card to the network; it detects the card, Yes, but the detection is correct. In the detection message there is a good MAC address, only afterwards the things start to look broken. And the driver doesn't touch the EEPROM after the initialization phase. > assigns it a MAC address of "FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF" (which I know is bogus), Not in the detection message that you posted, where MAC address is 00:c0:4f:fb:11:54. -- Bogdan Costescu IWR - Interdisziplinaeres Zentrum fuer Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Universitaet Heidelberg, INF 368, D-69120 Heidelberg, GERMANY Telephone: +49 6221 54 8869, Telefax: +49 6221 54 8868 E-mail: Bogdan.Costescu@IWR.Uni-Heidelberg.De - : 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