Greetings,
I don't know about other vendors, but Matsonic boards have the MAC on a
sticker just in case.
G'day,
sjames
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Steve M. Gehlbach wrote:
> > This is probably because the MAC address in flash is 0 too. Consider a
> > flash update. You have to:
> > - write the new f
> Surely they printed the MAC address on a sticky label on one or more of:
> a) the motherboard
> b) the ethernet controller / socket
> c) the manual
> d) the box the motherboard came in
> e) a little piece of paper included in the packaging ?
>
> I'm generally used to seeing two labels - one on t
On Monday 23 September 2002 6:08 am, Steve M. Gehlbach wrote:
> The board came with the cmos jumper in the "clear" position, which threw me
> since it wouldn't come up at first until I spotted this.
Yeah - I hate it when manufacturers do that too.
> Anyway, the user space program to set a new M
>
> The storage for MAC address changed again and again over time. If you do
> really have a 630E mb. You can use the attached file.
>
> Ollie
Thanks Ollie. This is a much better program than my quick hack. I had
pretty much figured it out from your linux driver by this time, but this is
good,
> This is probably because the MAC address in flash is 0 too. Consider a
> flash update. You have to:
> - write the new flash
> - write "permanent" parameters from CMOS to flash
>
> then, next time CMOS gets wiped, you copy the MAC etc. from FLASH to CMOS.
>
> If you load linuxbios and then zero f
On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 14:35, 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
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Steve M. Gehlbach wrote:
> Well, you and Steven are correct. Not sure why the mfr bios refuses to
> reset it.
There's no record of the value of the MAC address anywhere, so it can't
reset it.
> Not so. Clearly the cmos only approach is much less robust.
CMOS-only is a ter
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Steve M. Gehlbach wrote:
> Thanks, you are correct, except the BIOS stubbornly refuses to reset it now.
> I have zeroed the cmos (using the jumper) several times, and pressed F2(? I
> think) to set default values, but still a zero. It's interesting the the
> M787cl+, after a
> I am pretty sure you won't find an eeprom. PC chips has a habit of storing
> MAC address in CMOS to save the eeprom cost on the motherboard. Matsonic
> ms7308e does this too. At some point your cmos probably got zerod. Bad
> thing the vendors do is store MAC address in cmos. Zero cmos, zero mac
Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> That's why they tell you to NEVER interrupt a BIOS update ... you can lose
> the MAC address. This amazingly fragile scheme is becoming more and more
> common.
Well that and you can kill your system 10 other ways as well.
Killing a BIOS update is fr
> AFAIK, on the 630e, the MAC address is actually stored in CMOS at index
> 9-14. I'm not sure how that came to be zeroed, but if you put it back
> there, all will be well. The regular BIOS sets that during POST.
>
> G'day,
> sjames
>
Thanks, you are correct, except the BIOS stubbornly refuses to
>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.
There is a dos utility in pcchips.com site to reprogram t
> The utils and instructions for programing the eeprom with the SiS 900
> can be found at:
>
> ftp://sis55X:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/SiS900/utility/
>
> Bari
Thanks for the link; very useful info.
-Steve
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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
>
On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, 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 am pretty sure you won't find an eeprom. PC chips has a ha
Greetings,
AFAIK, on the 630e, the MAC address is actually stored in CMOS at index
9-14. I'm not sure how that came to be zeroed, but if you put it back
there, all will be well. The regular BIOS sets that during POST.
G'day,
sjames
On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Steve M. Gehlbach wrote:
> My pcchips m
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