From: "Ayaz Abdulla" <AAbdulla@nvidia.com>
To: "Alex Owen" <r.alex.owen@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: forcedeth net driver: reverse mac address after pxe boot
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 10:29:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DBFABB80F7FD3143A911F9E6CFD477B0189CAB16@hqemmail02.nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55c223960610060737p1a5fda6bl95547accc7d96468@mail.gmail.com>
This has been fixed in version "243.0537". You will have to request an
updated BIOS from your board vendor.
Regards,
Ayaz
-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Owen [mailto:r.alex.owen@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 7:37 AM
To: Ayaz Abdulla
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: forcedeth net driver: reverse mac address after pxe boot
On 05/10/06, Ayaz Abdulla <AAbdulla@nvidia.com> wrote:
> The BIOS will write to the mac address register. The address will be
> written in reverse order.
(Why does the BIOS have to write it out in reverse order? Seems a bit
odd to my simple mind!)
> This bug has already been fixed in the PXE code. Can you let me know
> what version of PXE you are running (it should display the version on
> the screen during boot up)?
I was booting with "Nvidia Boot Agent 240.0532" when I encountered this
issue.
Alex Owen
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-06 17:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-04 16:19 Alex Owen
2006-10-04 16:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-10-04 17:30 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-04 18:06 ` Ayaz Abdulla
2006-10-20 17:33 ` Alex Owen
2006-10-05 14:28 ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-10-05 14:44 ` John W. Linville
2006-10-05 18:35 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2006-10-05 19:31 ` John W. Linville
2006-10-05 19:45 ` Ayaz Abdulla
2006-10-06 14:37 ` Alex Owen
2006-10-06 17:29 ` Ayaz Abdulla [this message]
2006-10-06 19:11 ` John W. Linville
2006-10-06 21:02 ` Ayaz Abdulla
2006-10-05 19:45 ` Andrew de Quincey
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