On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, W wrote:
>
> While sorting out some network problems this morning, I happened to
> notice that both the cards on the box had the same MAC address. Weird.
> They were both EtherExpress Pro/100+ cards. I checked out some other
> boxes, and sure enough, *all* the EtherExpress Pro cards on our network
> have the same MAC Address: 00:A4:00:80:D2:9C.
> The addresses show up as correct (well, I assume so - they're
> different) under Windoze, so I assume it's a problem with the eepro100
> driver.
>
> Is this a known bug? I've checked all the docs I can find and I can't
> find a reference to it, although I have noticed in several posts that
> people have been posting eepro100 diagnostics for other problems - and
> they all seem to have the MAC address 00:A4:00:80:D2:9C. I guess you
> wouldn't notice unless you had more than one of them on a network, and
> even then, they do work, just very poorly.
This is a known problem with these cards and older eepro100 drivers. Get
the latest driver from http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers.
-Tom
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