On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 03:15, Ben Reser wrote: > On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 10:30:09PM -0600, Brad Felmey wrote: > > When using a 3Com 3c905B network card, the 3c59x module correctly > > implements the MACADDR= line in > > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth(n) configs. If I use the 3c90x > > module instead, it cheerfully disregards this setting and just uses the > > hardware MAC. Is this behavior on purpose, or is something broken? > > What happens when you do: > ifconfig <interface> hw ether <macaddr>
Same disregard for the argument. Everything else works, it just simply doesn't use the specified MAC address. > If that works then there's something funky going on. If not then it's > possible there is a bug in 3c90x module or they didn't implement it in > that driver. That might be the case, although I'd have thought there would be more "out there" on this issue if others had the same problem. -- Brad Felmey
