Re: forcedeth net driver: reverse mac address after pxe boot
From: Alan Cox
Date: Wed Oct 04 2006 - 13:06:01 EST
Ar Mer, 2006-10-04 am 17:19 +0100, ysgrifennodd Alex Owen:
> The obvious fix for this is to try and read the MAC address from the
> canonical location... ie where is the source of the address writen
> into the controlers registers at power on? But do we know where that
> may be?
Why not check if the first or last 3 bytes are the Nvidia owner bits.
The only card that will misdetect is
00:16:17:17:16:00
which doesn't matter anyway
Alan
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