Subject: Re: [patch 2/4] forcedeth: fix MAC address detection on network card (regression in 2.6.23)

From: Ayaz Abdulla <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:57:10 -0500

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Ayaz Abdulla wrote:
> 
>> Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:20:59 -0500 Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email-masked]>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> NAK - this fixes one set of users, and breaks a working set of users.
>>>>
>>>> Need to add DMI check for the specific motherboard 
>>>> (dmi_check_system), and flip flag according to success/failure of 
>>>> that check.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> OK :)  I added the above to the changelog for next time.
>>>
>>> You guys can hide, but this patch isn't going away!
>>
>>
>> I believe Michael determined that a newer BIOS fixes this issue.
> 
> 
> 
> That's a solution that makes vendors happy... but we still have to deal 
> with it in Linux.  There are plenty of the old broken BIOS still out in 
> the field...
> 
>     Jeff
> 
> 

Michael, can you provide which BIOS version had this issue and which 
version fixed the issue?

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