Re: HW ethernet address problems with 8139too and 2.4.9

[Hans-Christian Armingeon]

On Thursday, 30. August 2001 12:17, Gerd Knorr wrote:
> 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:
I didn't run windows before that on the system, the processor was a "virgin"
>
> (1) stop booting windows
> (2) ifconfig eth0 hw ether ...  at a reasonable place in the boot
>     scripts
>
>   Gerd