This was gleaned from conversations with Donald Becker w/regard
to why: ifconfig eth1 hw ether a:b:c:d:e:f
fails to work with the RTL drivers.
This fixes the problem, at least on my machine:
(The new line has ### in front of it..)
8139too.c, line 1229, from kernel 2.4.prerelease:
/* Check that the chip has finished the reset. */
for (i = 1000; i > 0; i--)
if ((RTL_R8 (ChipCmd) & CmdReset) == 0)
break;
/* Restore our idea of the MAC address. */
### RTL_W8_F (Cfg9346, 0xC0); /* Fix provided by Becker */
RTL_W32_F (MAC0 + 0, cpu_to_le32 (*(u32 *) (dev->dev_addr + 0)));
RTL_W32_F (MAC0 + 4, cpu_to_le32 (*(u32 *) (dev->dev_addr + 4)));
The 2.2.18 driver is broken too, but I think Donald is going to send
the fixes for it.
Thanks,
Ben
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Author of ScryMUD: scry.wanfear.com 4444 (Released under GPL)
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