Re: [patch 2/4] forcedeth: fix MAC address detection on network card (regression in 2.6.23)

2008-02-05 Thread Michael Pyne
fine and I'm not sure when exactly that happened (I use Ketchup to maintain the sources and somewhere it unpatched my forcedeth.c :) I want to double-check that a simple BIOS upgrade will solve it. But I also don't have a lot of time before I go underway for a few months. :-/ Regards,

Re: [patch 2/8] forcedeth: fix MAC address detection on network card (regression in 2.6.23)

2007-11-21 Thread Michael Pyne
e. I've also upgraded to the latest firmware for this motherboard and the bug remains. I think it would be ideal if there were a way to detect broken MCP61's (i.e. those with a Gigabyte MAC ID instead of the nVidia one) and only reverse the MAC address then. A module paramet

[PATCH] forcedeth: Fix MAC address detection on network card (regression in 2.6.23)

2007-10-11 Thread Michael Pyne
T_19 entry. The included patch fixes the MAC address detection on my system. Interestingly, the MAC address appears to be in the range reserved for my motherboard manufacturer (Gigabyte) and not nVidia. If you need any further information about my hardware configuration just let me know. Regards,