On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 07:57 -0700, Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh wrote: > Yes, kerenl doesn't read mac address correctly on O2K. Some timeing > issue in the driver > as far as I can tell. None of my kernels ever could read it on O2K, even > though it works > just fine on O200. > > No you are wrong. Forcing MAC address works just fine. At least it does > so here. it doesn't works also for me... I have not tried last kernel, but as soon as possible I'm going to do it ! (some times it recognise menet MAC addresses, but it doesn't works) > You just have to force it to correct value (i.e. the one origin was > using when it > was sending bootp/tftp packets. > > Look at the logs at your boot server. > > -- > Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh > Total Knowledge, CTO > http://www.total-knowledge.com/ > > Arianna Arona wrote: > > >Hi everybody, > > > >my network problem are now due to MAC address. > >Kernel does not read it and forcing the value via ifconfig does not solve the > >problem. > > > >I need to merge the old driver, which detects MAC addr but eth0 link is down, > >with the new one that does the contraty..... opsss.... I could have a not > >working at all driver.... :(( > > > >A. > > > > > > > > >
