Hi. On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 10:56:43AM -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > It's possible, of course. What's also possible is card's EEPROM may have > > gone haywire. I had a similar problem back in the day with rtl8139 NIC, > > IIRC. One day the thing simply started to assign itself a random MAC > > (but worked in every other regard), and since the thing was a part of > > the motherboard - I had to try almost every workaround in the existence. > > > > And you checked to make certain that really really really no firmware > upgrades took place in the meantime?
Of course I'm sure. I'd remember rewriting card's EEPROM. That NIC had only built-in impossible to upgrade firmware, just in case. And in the grand scheme of things ever-changing MAC was a nuisance, not a problem. Changing the MAC on boot was a klugde, but it worked. > Or downgrades? See above. > Not even from some dual-booted OS on the same box? I don't do dual-boot for last 20 years at least. Dual-boot may be useful to someone, but I have no need of it. Besides, I don't own that hardware anymore. Unless I'm mistaken, it was "retired" to a nearest garbage dump. Reco