Re: 2.1.21 bugs..
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Mon, 20 Jan 1997 10:05:33 -0800 (PST)
>
> Hi,
>
> > Believe it or not, I once found a PCMCIA Ethernet card which seems to
> > pick an Ethernet address by probing the net or similar; it would
> > usually pick 00:00:00:00:00:00 or 00:00:00:00:00:01 or something
> > equivalent... needless to say, I banned the bloody thing from my net
> > immediately...
>
> I can't believe someone really makes such an effort. Rather I suppose
> that just the card's NVRAM containing the Ethernet address has never
> been initilalized at factory or been overwritten. I had this problem
> with the RM200 which SNI generously loaned me for porting Linux/MIPS to.
> Solution for that machine was to reprogram the EEPROM using a utility
> available (but undocumented ...) in the firmware. A funny utility
> because it allows you even to change serial numbers and more ...
>
> Ralf
>
You'd think so, but the Ethernet address changed sometimes...
-hpa