Bug 3122

Summary:	(net 3c59x) driver assigns invalid MAC address to NIC
Product:	Drivers	Reporter:	Antonio M. D'souza (kernel)
Component:	Network	Assignee:	Andrew Morton (akpm)
Status:	REJECTED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Severity:	blocking	CC:	bunk, jgarzik
Priority:	P2
Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.7	Subsystem:
Regression:	---	Bisected commit-id:

Description Antonio M. D'souza 2004-07-26 12:32:38 UTC

Distribution: Gentoo
Hardware Environment: uniproc x86 (K7) system with onboard 3Com NIC.
Problem Description: 
When I was using the 2.4.20 kernel this NIC used to work fine via the 3c59x driver.
Now when I run ifconfig it says the hardware address is FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF & dhcpcd won't work with it.

Comment 1 kernel.bugzilla-eran 2005-06-19 17:14:49 UTC

Duplicate of either bug 1188 (if the "acpi=off" workaround works) or bug 3439
(if not).

Comment 2 Adrian Bunk 2005-08-08 03:45:33 UTC

Is this problem still present in kernel 2.6.13-rc6?

Comment 3 Adrian Bunk 2006-02-06 13:29:32 UTC

I'm assuming this issue is already fixed.

Please reopen this bug if it's still present in recent 2.6 kernels.