Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 13:18:02 -0600 From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1014319083.3554c6@mired.org> To: "W. Desjardins" <bill@carracing.com> Cc: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: sis0: incorrect mac address Message-ID: <15470.45162.746910.382678@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20020216140328.O63345-100000@mail.carracing.com> References: <20020216140328.O63345-100000@mail.carracing.com>
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W. Desjardins <bill@carracing.com> types: > on 3 out of 4 servers just installed, I get this when looking at ifconfig: > > sis0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> 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 <full-duplex>) > 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. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> 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
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