Steve M. Gehlbach wrote: >My pcchips m787cl+ with the sis630e chipset started reporting a 00:00..00 >mac address. It was working at first, but somewhere in the process of >debugging I started getting all zeros. > >I looked thorough the linuxbios and the sis900.c driver, and I think >everything is being setup correctly. I even wrote a small program to read >the eeprom directly (rather than the APC cmos), following the code in the >sis driver, and I always read zeroes. I cannot ever seem to get a 1 on DO >(b1 of IO reg 0x2008). > >I put the orig bios back in and booted Linux and same result, so I am pretty >sure the eeprom got erased (or is dead). > >Anybody (ollie?) know if there is a way to re-write the eeprom? The >ifconfig command will set the mac to any value but it doesn't last through >reboots, and I did not see any code in the driver that appears to write to >the eeprom. > > > The utils and instructions for programing the eeprom with the SiS 900 can be found at:
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