On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 06:20:47AM -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote: > Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > * Bill Gatliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-08 14:30]: > >> So now the kernel is very happy talking to the drives, apparently. But it > >> doesn't like the e1000's:
> > I thought you were aware of this, but in case you're not: Thecus > > removed the EEPROM from both i82541 chips and stored the MAC address > > in the RedBoot configuration area. > Yep. The head-scratching part is figuring out a way to tell the e1000 driver > to > keep the MAC that's already programmed. I don't see a robust, convenient way > to > do that with the existing driver. Perhaps the e1000 driver developers have a idea howto support cleanly e1000 devices on embedded systems without eeprom? -- "rm -rf" only sounds scary if you don't have backups -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
