From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Neil Cafferkey <caffer@cs.ucc.ie>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Setting MAC address in ewrk3 driver
Date: 21 Nov 2002 21:28:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1037914095.9122.0.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021121195417.A18859@cuc.ucc.ie>
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 19:54, Neil Cafferkey wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think I may have found a bug in the ewrk3 network driver. When I try to
> change the MAC address of a Digital DE205 NIC using "ifconfig eth0 hw
> ether XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX", it appears to work ("ifconfig eth0" reports the
> new address), but in fact it isn't sending or receiving packets any more.
> I'm using kernel version 2.4.10.
The default handler assumes the card mac address is set by the "up"
method. That driver is old enough it may not do so.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-21 20:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-21 19:54 Neil Cafferkey
2002-11-21 21:28 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-11-21 23:39 ` Adam Kropelin
2002-11-22 0:26 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-22 0:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-22 1:30 ` [PATCH] " Adam Kropelin
2002-11-26 1:47 ` Neil Cafferkey
2002-11-21 23:29 ` Adam Kropelin
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