linux-kernel - Re: forcedeth net driver: reverse mac address after pxe boot

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Date:	Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:33:10 +0100
From:	"Alex Owen" <r.alex.owen@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: forcedeth net driver: reverse mac address after pxe boot

This is a patch against the RHEL4_U3 forcedeth.c source as distributed
by nvidia in the package
http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/nforce/1.11/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.11.zip

It performs the test suggested by Alan Cox and reveses the MAC address
as needed.
It is not pretty but is solves my issue while I am waiting for my PC
vendor to get a new BIOS sorted with the upgraded bootagent that fixes
the problem.
As it may help others I'm posting it here!!!

Alex Owen

On 04/10/06, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> Ar Mer, 2006-10-04 am 17:19 +0100, ysgrifennodd Alex Owen:
> > The obvious fix for this is to try and read the MAC address from the
> > canonical location... ie where is the source of the address writen
> > into the controlers registers at power on? But do we know where that
> > may be?
>
> Why not check if the first or last 3 bytes are the Nvidia owner bits.
> The only card that will misdetect is
>
> 00:16:17:17:16:00
>
> which doesn't matter anyway
>
> Alan
>
>

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