linux-kernel - Re: r8169 MAC addresses broken

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Message-ID: <49116C98.8010304@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:51:20 +0100
From:	Ivan Vecera <ivecera@...hat.com>
To:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
CC:	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>,
	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>,
	Simon Arlott <simon@...e.lp0.eu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Edward Hsu <edward_hsu@...ltek.com.tw>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: r8169 MAC addresses broken

Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Ivan Vecera napsal(a):
>> Francois has fix for this problem (zeroed MAC address) in his repository:
>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/romieu/netdev-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=9b1abbccf53ef1a1213b159d56257b535c599f07
> 
> I've applied the 2 patches with this result:
> r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded
> r8169 0000:06:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
> r8169 0000:06:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
> r8169 0000:06:00.0: irq 43 for MSI/MSI-X
> r8169 0000:06:00.0: Missing EEPROM signature: 00000000
> eth0: RTL8168b/8111b at 0xffffc20000038000, 00:18:f3:f8:e1:ca, XID 38000000
> IRQ 43
So, no MAC was read from EEPROM but it's is correct. Please try to change
MAC address by ifconfig or ip and then reboot (no power-off). What's in dmesg
now?

Ivan
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