From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Jan 20 17:59:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA29127 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 17:59:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from afs.ntc.mita.keio.ac.jp (afs.ntc.mita.keio.ac.jp [131.113.212.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA29123 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 17:59:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hosokawa@ntc.keio.ac.jp) Received: (from hosokawa@localhost) by afs.ntc.mita.keio.ac.jp (8.8.8+2.7Wbeta7/3.6Wbeta6-ntc_mailserver1.03) id KAA17910; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 10:56:05 +0900 (JST) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 10:56:05 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <199801210156.KAA17910@afs.ntc.mita.keio.ac.jp> 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 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Jan 1998 11:57:26 +1030". <199801210127.LAA00413@word.smith.net.au> From: hosokawa@ntc.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi) X-Mailer: mnews [version 1.20] 1996-12/08(Sun) 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. -- HOSOKAWA, Tatsumi Network Technology Center Keio University hosokawa@ntc.keio.ac.jp