Can't get MAC addr of an ed(4) adapter
M. Warner Losh
imp at bsdimp.com
Tue Jun 7 05:07:05 GMT 2005
In message: <20050606131957.GL41050 at obiwan.tataz.chchile.org>
Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie at le-hen.org> writes:
: Hi list,
:
: a friend of mine just upgraded his box from 5.4 to CURRENT. His
: ed(4) network adapter used to work when running 5.4 as well as
: Windows. Now, the card is recognized (as ed1, not ed0, I still
: wonder why since I can't see any resource conflict related message)
: but it doesn't have a MAC address. Note that the interface flags
: are somewhat weird. My friend tried to use an in-kernel driver as
: well as the if_ed module, this is the same. Defining ED_DEBUG
: doesn't give more diagnostic about the problem. We can still
: assign a MAC address manually, although ATM I still haven't got any
: chance to try if the card is really working, but I'll be able to
: in a few hours.
:
: I attached the dmesg of boot verbose. Thanks in advance for your help.
:
: Regards,
:
: %%%
: bana# ifconfig ed0
: ed0: flags=108802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
: ether 00:00:00:00:00:00
: bana# ifconfig ed0 link 00:11:22:33:44:55
: bana# ifconfig ed0
: ed0: flags=108802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
: ether 00:11:22:33:44:55
:
: bana# pciconf -lv | sed -n '/^ed/,/subclass/p'
: ed0 at pci0:7:0: class=0x020000 card=0x802910ec chip=0x802910ec rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
: vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
: device = 'RTL8029 NE2000 compatible Ethernet'
: class = network
: subclass = ethernet
Chances are good that I broke this in my hacking. I didn't have a
RTL8029 at the time to test on :-(
Warner
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