On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 02:11:11PM -0500, Allen Ahoffman wrote: > are sis900 ethernet cards supported?
Yes. Since kernel version 2.2.x...
> odd bios setting:
> settings for mac address are in the bios for the sis900 card.
> Haven't seen this setting before.
Most cards can be set to a given MAC address. In many cases, you can
even use ifconfig:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root] #> ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:DA:43:C8:A8
inet addr:192.168.100.42 Bcast:192.168.100.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:5788373 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3514477 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:12 Base address:0xa800
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root] #> ifconfig eth0 down
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root] #> ifconfig eth0 hw ether ba:de:20:af:fe:20
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root] #> ifconfig eth0 up
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root] #> ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr BA:DE:20:AF:FE:20
inet addr:192.168.100.42 Bcast:192.168.100.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:5788374 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3514477 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:12 Base address:0xa800
Some network architectures are even based on the card's capability to
change the MAC address (AFAIK DECnet uses this...).
MfG, JBG
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