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To: "Jerry Nelson" <jnelson@inktomi.com>
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Subject: Re: SiS 900 Nic Chipset drivers: Mac address reporting 00:00:00:00:00:00
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In <009701c1d1f0$fe4474e0$efd822d8@JNELSONLAPTOP>, Jerry Nelson <jnelson@inktomi.com> typed:
> Hi all...Im new to the board and wanted to say hello.
> I have been having an issue with an Asus motherboard that is based on the
> SiS 630 chipset. It has the integrated 10/100 (SiS900)  nic and I have been
> having a problem that I found some references to in the archives but no
> solution. Basically the Nic is not reporting its Mac address to the OS. The
> driver reports the Mac Address on all 10 of these boards as
> 00:00:00:00:00:00
> 
> I have FreeBSD-4.5 installed on all of these systems.
> 
> Has anyone worked out a fix for this yet?

Assuming it's the same as the SiS 635 chipset, it's fixed in
-stable. You can wait for 4.6 - due out in June - or upgrade to
-stable from the CVS repository.

	<mike
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