From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 23 12:29: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from goof.com (goof.com [12.4.218.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 34F3137B417 for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 12:29:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 28450 invoked by uid 15016); 23 Sep 2001 19:28:59 -0000 Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 15:28:59 -0400 From: Jon-Erik Lido To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: SiS 900 ethernet MAC address all zeros (me too) Message-ID: <20010923152858.C27640@goof.com> Mail-Followup-To: Jon-Erik Lido , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Back in December/Januare Oliver Crow mentioned a problem with his onboard SiS 900 ethernet reporting a MAC address of all zeros. I have the same problem, but I haven't been able to work around it. The mainboard uses the SiS 735 chipset FreeBSD reports: sis0: port 0xdc00-0xdcff mem 0xcffdd000-0xcffddfff irq 10 at device 3.0 on pci0 sis0: Ethernet address: 00:00:00:00:00:00 sis0: MII without any PHY! device_probe_and_attach: sis0 attach returned 6 Unlike Oliver, I can't figure out how to get the device to work. Dispite having an address of all zeros, networking worked for him. Later he mentioned getting a tip from Ben Hochstrasser on using "ifconfig lladdr" to force a MAC address like: ifconfig dc0 lladdr 60:00:00:00:00:00 (I assume that this example was for the DEC ethernet adapters and not the SiS 900.) Adding a similar lladdr to my ifconfig_sis0 line in rc.conf seems to have no effect. How do I get this device to work? -Jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message