Re: forcedeth generates Invalid MAC address message

2007-11-12 Thread Keith Schweikhard
On Sunday 11 November 2007, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 04:29:54PM -0800, Keith Schweikhard wrote: No luck on the MAC addresses being printed on the bottom. I've tried to locate the chip on the IEEE website without luck. It looks like the MAC address that is getting

Re: forcedeth generates Invalid MAC address message

2007-11-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 04:29:54PM -0800, Keith Schweikhard wrote: No luck on the MAC addresses being printed on the bottom. I've tried to locate the chip on the IEEE website without luck. It looks like the MAC address that is getting posted on both machines is in a reverse byte order.

Re: forcedeth generates Invalid MAC address message

2007-11-12 Thread Jaime Ochoa Malagón
On 11/12/07, Keith Schweikhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 11 November 2007, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 04:29:54PM -0800, Keith Schweikhard wrote: No luck on the MAC addresses being printed on the bottom. I've tried to locate the chip on the IEEE website

Re: forcedeth generates Invalid MAC address message

2007-11-12 Thread Jaime Ochoa Malagón
FYI On 11/12/07, Mike Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found a fix on the Debian forums. http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=14331highlight=forcedeth You edit your /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules file. remove all old entries your not using then add this one ( SUBSYSTEM==net,

Re: forcedeth generates Invalid MAC address message

2007-11-11 Thread Keith Schweikhard
On Saturday 10 November 2007, William Cooper wrote: On 11/11/2007, Keith Schweikhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am currently configuring two identical ACER Aspire 5520 laptops. The processors are AMD Turion 64 X2 dual core, Nvidia nforce 610M providing the ethernet connection.

Re: Re: forcedeth generates Invalid MAC address message

2007-11-11 Thread Eugen Dedu
Hi, The first byte of your MAC address is 1d, i.e. 00011101. On http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_address (the figure): if the last bit of the 1st byte is 1, then it is a multicast address, NOT a unicast one. As such, it cannot be the main address of a NIC. Maybe the address reading has a

Re: forcedeth generates Invalid MAC address message

2007-11-11 Thread Keith Schweikhard
On Sunday 11 November 2007, Eugen Dedu wrote: Hi, The first byte of your MAC address is 1d, i.e. 00011101. On http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_address (the figure): if the last bit of the 1st byte is 1, then it is a multicast address, NOT a unicast one. As such, it cannot be the main

Re: forcedeth generates Invalid MAC address message

2007-11-11 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 04:29:54PM -0800, Keith Schweikhard wrote: No luck on the MAC addresses being printed on the bottom. I've tried to locate the chip on the IEEE website without luck. It looks like the MAC address that is getting posted on both machines is in a reverse byte order.

Re: forcedeth generates Invalid MAC address message

2007-11-10 Thread William Cooper
On 11/11/2007, Keith Schweikhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am currently configuring two identical ACER Aspire 5520 laptops. The processors are AMD Turion 64 X2 dual core, Nvidia nforce 610M providing the ethernet connection. Atheros AR5007EG for the wireless connection. I am doing