Re: Setting MAC address in ewrk3 driver

[Alan Cox]

On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 19:54, Neil Cafferkey wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I think I may have found a bug in the ewrk3 network driver. When I try to
> change the MAC address of a Digital DE205 NIC using "ifconfig eth0 hw
> ether XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX", it appears to work ("ifconfig eth0" reports the
> new address), but in fact it isn't sending or receiving packets any more.
> I'm using kernel version 2.4.10.

The default handler assumes the card mac address is set by the "up"
method. That driver is old enough it may not do so.