From: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat•com>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail•com>
Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm•waw.pl>,
Francois Romieu <romieu@fr•zoreil.com>,
Simon Arlott <simon@fire•lp0.eu>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org>,
netdev <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
Edward Hsu <edward_hsu@realtek•com.tw>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead•org>
Subject: Re: r8169 MAC addresses broken
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:04:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <490EBE83.7030309@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <490718C7.3010501@gmail.com>
Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 10/28/2008 02:45 PM, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
>> Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail•com> writes:
>>
>>>> Same thing if you unplug the battery ?
>>> Thanks, now it seems to be OK.
>> Well, perhaps reverting that patch was a bit premature?
>
> No, it helped after reverting that patch. I think we don't want defunct 2.6.28
> with these nics.
I cannot agree. IMO the problem was in the first version of the patch that didn't
check for invalid (zeroed) MAC address. In this case is necessary to power-off (desktop
case) or unplug the battery (notebook case).
>
>> If removing battery fixes the problem then it's not the EEPROM.
>
> Agreed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-03 9:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-25 20:25 r8169 MAC addresses broken Simon Arlott
2008-10-25 21:49 ` Jiri Slaby
2008-10-25 22:34 ` Francois Romieu
2008-10-25 23:55 ` Alistair John Strachan
2008-10-26 10:38 ` Jiri Slaby
2008-10-26 12:52 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-10-26 15:01 ` Francois Romieu
2008-10-27 19:50 ` Simon Arlott
2008-10-28 9:12 ` Ivan Vecera
2008-10-26 20:42 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-10-26 17:24 ` Jiri Slaby
2008-10-26 17:34 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-10-26 17:46 ` Francois Romieu
2008-10-28 10:09 ` Jiri Slaby
2008-10-28 13:45 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-10-28 13:51 ` Jiri Slaby
2008-10-28 20:37 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-11-03 9:04 ` Ivan Vecera [this message]
2008-11-03 14:50 ` Jiri Slaby
2008-11-04 18:49 ` Ivan Vecera
2008-11-04 21:10 ` Jiri Slaby
2008-11-05 9:51 ` Ivan Vecera
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