Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 10:56:05 +0900 (JST) From: hosokawa@ntc.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi) To: mike@smith.net.au Cc: trost@cloud.rain.com, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, hosokawa@ntc.keio.ac.jp Subject: Re: problems with SVEC NE2000 clone Message-ID: <199801210156.KAA17910@afs.ntc.mita.keio.ac.jp> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Jan 1998 11:57:26 %2B1030". <199801210127.LAA00413@word.smith.net.au>
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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. -- HOSOKAWA, Tatsumi Network Technology Center Keio University hosokawa@ntc.keio.ac.jp
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