netdev - Re: Problems with ULI 526x driver

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Date:	Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:50:25 +0100
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	Timur Tabi <timur@...escale.com>
Cc:	peerchen@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problems with ULI 526x driver

Timur Tabi <timur@...escale.com> :
[...]
> Update: I can ping anything on my subnet, but nothing else.  Also, it looks 
> like my MAC address is hosed:
[...]
> It turns out that the driver is getting the MAC address from the ID table:
> 
> 	if(((u16 *) db->srom)[0] == 0xffff || ((u16 *) db->srom)[0] == 0) /* 
> 	SROM absent, so read MAC address from ID Table */
> 	{
> 
> 
> In my case, the address that is returned is all zeros.  I don't know 
> anything about the ULI 526x hardware.  Is it possible that there's a 
> missing EEPROM on my board that's supposed to hold the MAC address?  Are 
> these registers user-writable?

You previously said that the tulip driver + reverted change works with
your card (TULIP_MMIO was not set, right ?). I guess it did correctly set
the HW address, did it not ?

-- 
Ueimor
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