From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 20 14:38:34 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9278237B401 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 14:38:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAD4E43F1E for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 14:38:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) id h0KMcP7k064508; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 16:38:25 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 16:38:25 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Benjamin Lutz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dc NIC: mac address gets reset (5.0-REL) Message-ID: <20030120223824.GJ49032@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20030120215433.2bed4bb4.benlutz@datacomm.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030120215433.2bed4bb4.benlutz@datacomm.ch> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i 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 In the last episode (Jan 20), Benjamin Lutz said: > I just installed FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE on a machine that was running > 4.7-RELEASE-p3 before. I've got a problem with my network card: > > After rebooting the system, it's MAC address is reset to > C0:00:C0:00:C0:00. The card works fine otherwise (apart from some > "dc: failed to force tx and rx to idle state" messages that are, as > far as the mailing lists tell me, uncritical). This of course makes > the DHCP server give me another than my standard IP. Also, if I > install FreeBSD 5.0 on another machine in my LAN, and it shows the > same behaviour, i'll run into problems. > > I can manually change the MAC address back to its old value, then > restart dhclient, and it works. However, I don't want to have to do > that after every reboot... I think this is a known problem. You can probably work around it by creating a file "/etc/start_if.dc0" with the single line: ifconfig dc0 ether 01:23:45:67:89:AB That should force the mac address before dhcp starts up. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message