From: Adam Kropelin <akropel1@rochester.rr.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Neil Cafferkey <caffer@cs.ucc.ie>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Setting MAC address in ewrk3 driver
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 18:39:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021121233950.GB4654@www.kroptech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1037914095.9122.0.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 09:28:15PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> 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.
Alan, could you clarify for me? I'm the last guy to diddle with ewrk3 so
I'll track this down if there is indeed something to track down. ewrk3
has a private ioctl for setting the mac address. By the "up" method do
you mean the etherdev open method? Should there be a standard ioctl
implemented for setting the mac address?
--Adam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-21 23:32 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
2002-11-21 23:39 ` Adam Kropelin [this message]
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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