LKML Archive on lore.kernel.org
help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>,
	Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Edward Hsu <edward_hsu@realtek.com.tw>,
	Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: r8169 MAC addresses broken
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:42:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m31vy3jdgh.fsf@maximus.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <490448B0.8050307@gmail.com> (Jiri Slaby's message of "Sun\, 26 Oct 2008 11\:38\:40 +0100")

Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> writes:

> However I may have a hw failure or some bug overwrote my eeprom, I see this
> in current mmotm:
> r8169 0000:06:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
> 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: mac_version = 0x0c
> r8169 0000:06:00.0: irq 43 for MSI/MSI-X
> r8169: MAC address found in EEPROM: 00:00:00:00:00:00

Note there is no msg about missing EEPROM signature. I wonder what
exactly is in the EEPROM. A modified (and again reversed) "[PATCH 1/1]
r8169: revert "read MAC address from EEPROM on init" should be able to
show it.

There seem to be a DOS tool on RTL WWW to change the EEPROM data.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-26 20:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-25 20:25 Simon Arlott
2008-10-25 21:49 ` Jiri Slaby
2008-10-25 22:34   ` Francois Romieu
2008-10-25 23:55     ` Alistair John Strachan
2008-10-26 10:38     ` Jiri Slaby
2008-10-26 12:52       ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-10-26 15:01         ` Francois Romieu
2008-10-27 19:50         ` Simon Arlott
2008-10-28  9:12           ` Ivan Vecera
2008-10-26 20:42       ` Krzysztof Halasa [this message]
2008-10-26 17:24     ` Jiri Slaby
2008-10-26 17:34       ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-10-26 17:46       ` Francois Romieu
2008-10-28 10:09         ` Jiri Slaby
2008-10-28 13:45           ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-10-28 13:51             ` Jiri Slaby
2008-10-28 20:37               ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-11-03  9:04               ` Ivan Vecera
2008-11-03 14:50                 ` Jiri Slaby
2008-11-04 18:49                   ` Ivan Vecera
2008-11-04 21:10                     ` Jiri Slaby
2008-11-05  9:51                       ` Ivan Vecera

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=m31vy3jdgh.fsf@maximus.localdomain \
    --to=khc@pm.waw.pl \
    --cc=edward_hsu@realtek.com.tw \
    --cc=ivecera@redhat.com \
    --cc=jirislaby@gmail.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=romieu@fr.zoreil.com \
    --cc=simon@fire.lp0.eu \
    --subject='Re: r8169 MAC addresses broken' \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).