From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Feb 16 13:57:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CEF3337B416 for ; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 13:57:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 7775 invoked by uid 100); 16 Feb 2002 19:18:03 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15470.45162.746910.382678@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 13:18:02 -0600 To: "W. Desjardins" Cc: Subject: Re: sis0: incorrect mac address In-Reply-To: <20020216140328.O63345-100000@mail.carracing.com> References: <20020216140328.O63345-100000@mail.carracing.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.46 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.5-STABLE-i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG W. Desjardins types: > on 3 out of 4 servers just installed, I get this when looking at ifconfig: > > sis0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > inet 66.28.74.109 netmask 0xffffffe0 broadcast 66.28.74.127 > inet6 fe80::d483:b781:285a:6ea1%sis0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 > ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 > NOTE:------->^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) > status: active > > these machines are due for production, but without valid mac's, they cant > talk to each other. > > systems are running 4.5 RELEASE with custom kernel (GENERIC had same > results). The motherboard is an asus cusi-fx sis socket 370 with the sis > 630e onboard fast ethernet chipset. > > I have 7 more of these exact same machines with most also running 4.5R > fine and showing normal mac addresses. normally I run stable on all my > machines, but I have been bringing them up to 4.5R to get them all in sync > with each other since they are all identical. > > has anyone had any problems with the recent versions of this motherboard > or am I looking at a few bad chipsets? Are the seven that are working running more recent versions of the BIOS? If so, check on updating the BIOS. I know that other manufacturers have had to do BIOS updates to work around loosing the MAC address on the sis chipset NICs. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message