Re: HW ethernet address problems with 8139too and 2.4.9

Gerd Knorr (kraxel@bytesex.org)
30 Aug 2001 10:17:19 GMT

Hans-Christian Armingeon wrote:
> Hi gurus,
> I've got a problem with an Elitegroup K7AMA onboard rtl8139C LAN.
> ifconfig shows me the hardware address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff. So I'm not
> able to get an tcp/ip connection. Under w2k professional everything works
> fine.
> Any suggestions?

The f*** rtl windows driver does that. You can do:

(1) stop booting windows
(2) ifconfig eth0 hw ether ... at a reasonable place in the boot
scripts

Gerd

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