Jim, The strange thing is it's not just zeros, it contains an underscore (see previous post) that was really puzzling me. I presume that it must be a driver/kernel thing as the "bios" does report the correct mac. Suggesting its not a hardware fault. Am I right to think this?
I have a little information about them, but I'm trying to contact someone about chipset differences between the board revisions, but I am waiting for a reply.... I suspect I'll be waiting a looooong time. I tracked the board as being made by HP for Wyse. It is also linked to a company called "3Prime Solutions" but I am unsure how they fit in, I believe they are based in Derby UK. They did respond quickly at first but the trail seams to have gone cold. The network chips on the boards are very similar, the only difference being revision numbers, but as there are both types of chip revisions on both types of system-board it must be something else. You think? On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 08:12 -0400, Jim McQuillan wrote: > Alistair, > > I've seen MAC addresses come up as all zeros before. It's always turned > out that the kernel driver didn't properly initialize the nic. > > Sure you can force the MAC address with ifconfig, but a null mac address > is usually an indication of bigger problems between the driver and the card. > > Jim McQuillan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Kind regards Alistair Crust Systems Administrator Skegness Grammar School Vernon Road Skegness PE25 2QS TEL: 01754 610000 (ext'852) FAX: 01754 896875 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
