From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Jan 21 00:22:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA03477 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 00:22:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (vh1.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA03466 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 00:22:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA01496; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 18:37:29 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199801210807.SAA01496@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: hosokawa@ntc.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi) cc: mike@smith.net.au, trost@cloud.rain.com, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems with SVEC NE2000 clone In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 21 Jan 1998 10:56:05 +0900." <199801210156.KAA17910@afs.ntc.mita.keio.ac.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 18:37:28 +1030 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > In article <199801210127.LAA00413@word.smith.net.au> > mike@smith.net.au writes: > > >> The 'ed' driver obtains the MAC address from the 8390 core; I'm not > >> aware of any 8390 clones that don't do this right. > > But some Ethernet PC-cards only returns 00:00:00:00:00:00 for this > request. These cards have MAC address on CIS functional ext tupple or > attribute memory of the card. I think this is a cost issue, because > PC-card always have eeprom memory that can be appropreated to store > such ID's. It's possible (hey, it's certain, I don't expect you to lie) that some cards behave like this, but it's quite surprising. Most 8390 clones load their MAC address from a serial EEPROM; many of the integrated PCCARD 8390's use the same EEPROM that the CIS comes in from. How many cards do you know of that exhibit this behaviour? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\