Subject: Re: Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 6401] New: tg3 hardware address issue

From: "Michael Chan" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:21:44 -0700

On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 14:17 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Right now I am using the tg3.c contained in linus's git tree with a 2.6.15 
> kernel because this driver version (3.56) seems to be least broken, or atleast 
> hides it best.

The reason it hides it best is because the is_valid_ether_addr() is
somewhat broken in 2.6.15. tg3 continues to load despite the invalid MAC
address of ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff.

Please send the output of lspci -vvvxxx -s0:3:0.0 and lspci -vvvxxx -
s0:4:0.0. Thanks.