Look at http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2005-August/008979.html
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > One of the net4501's we received was refusing to PXE boot. It had bios > 1.24 > so we updated it to bios 1.32 using XMODEM. > > It now gets as far as sending a DHCP request, but fails to get an ARP > response. It turns out this is because it thinks its own MAC address is > FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF. > > The only reference I could find to this problem was > http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2005-August/008968.html > which suggests that the EEPROM is uninitialised, and that if I fiddle > about > to make a bootable CF card containing natsemi-diag, I might be able to > write > a MAC address into it. > > My questions are: > (1) could having other uninitialised EEPROM areas cause me problems? > Should > the unit go back to the supplier anyway for safety? > (2) is there a way to determine what the MAC address of the unit should > have > been, or do I end up picking one at random? > > Thanks, > > Brian. > > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
