The CSR contains garbage after a coldboot on RS/6000.
One some systems (like my 44p 270) the MAC address is all FF,
on others (like my B50) it is ff:ff:ff:fd:ff:6b.
It can eventually be fixed by loading pcnet32, set the interface
into the UP state, rmmod pcnet32 and load it again. But this worked
only on the 270.
Only netbooting after a cold start provides the correct MAC address
via prom and CSR. This makes it very unreliable.
I dont know why the MAC is stored in two different places. Remove
the special case for powerpc, which was added in early 2.4 development.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
drivers/net/pcnet32.c | 5 -----
1 files changed, 5 deletions(-)
Index: linux-2.6.14-rc3/drivers/net/pcnet32.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.14-rc3.orig/drivers/net/pcnet32.c
+++ linux-2.6.14-rc3/drivers/net/pcnet32.c
@@ -1172,12 +1172,7 @@ pcnet32_probe1(unsigned long ioaddr, int
if (memcmp(promaddr, dev->dev_addr, 6)
|| !is_valid_ether_addr(dev->dev_addr)) {
-#ifndef __powerpc__
if (is_valid_ether_addr(promaddr)) {
-#else
- if (!is_valid_ether_addr(dev->dev_addr)
- && is_valid_ether_addr(promaddr)) {
-#endif
if (pcnet32_debug & NETIF_MSG_PROBE) {
printk(" warning: CSR address invalid,\n");
printk(KERN_INFO " using instead PROM address of");
--
short story of a lazy sysadmin:
alias appserv=wotan
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