Not quite current CPU sources

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 02:09:08PM -0400, Colin McGregor wrote:
> The driver deals with things in a more-or-less sensible way, if it
> detects an invalid MAC address, it will replace that MAC address with
> a valid one chosen at random. This is a problem in my sort of set-up
> where the server needs to know what the MAC addresses of the diskless
> clients is going to be...

I believe the problem was that originally the MAC address was always
reversed on nvidia chips, but then some board makers started making it
not reversed and hence confused the kernel.  I think current kernel
versions (2.6.23 and higher or something like that) are supposed to try
and deal with it, but I am not sure.  I only have nforce2 based boards
from asus and I am sure they are all reversed in the eeprom and work
just fine with every kernel version.

Basicly try booting with a very new kernel and see if it gets the addres
right.  It should.  Most livecds are generally too out of date.

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Len Sorensen
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