hmm, on Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 07:00:35PM -0500, Ted Unangst said that
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 6:46 PM, frantisek holop <[email protected]> wrote:
> > amaaq$ sudo ifconfig lii0 lladdr 71:ec:da:32:72:24
> > ifconfig: SIOCSIFLLADDR: Invalid argument
> >
> > 1. would it be a good idea to implement a (perhaps -lladdr)
> > parameter that would "reset" the mac address to factory default?
>
> this doesn't really have any meaning because the value is only read
> once, it doesn't get stored anywhere besides the place that's
> overwritten.
oops.
> > 2. why am i not able to set back the original mac address
> > manually?
>
> seems we read the original wrong, that doesn't look like a correct address.
and it isn't indeed. after a fresh reboot:
amaaq$ ifconfig lii0|grep lladdr
lladdr 00:fe:e1:ba:d0:ff
while dmesg still shows the wrong one.
looks like a bona fide bug in lii0 initialisation and/or acpi?
might even explain why i need to put the thing into promisc mode
to pass packets...
-f
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