Subject: Re: r8169 MAC addresses broken

From: Ivan Vecera <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:51:20 +0100

Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Ivan Vecera napsal(a):
>> Francois has fix for this problem (zeroed MAC address) in his repository:
>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/romieu/netdev-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=9b1abbccf53ef1a1213b159d56257b535c599f07
> 
> I've applied the 2 patches with this result:
> r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded
> r8169 0000:06:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
> r8169 0000:06:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
> r8169 0000:06:00.0: irq 43 for MSI/MSI-X
> r8169 0000:06:00.0: Missing EEPROM signature: 00000000
> eth0: RTL8168b/8111b at 0xffffc20000038000, 00:18:f3:f8:e1:ca, XID 38000000
> IRQ 43
So, no MAC was read from EEPROM but it's is correct. Please try to change
MAC address by ifconfig or ip and then reboot (no power-off). What's in dmesg
now?

Ivan