On Sunday 26 February 2006 01:34 am, Jos Vos wrote:
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 09:38:21PM -0800, Dane Mutters wrote:
> Fedora originally reported the MAC as being: 00:04:5A:55:96:57, but now
> Fedora and Knoppix are both reporting it as: FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF. Very
> strange...
I've seen more than one Ethernet card dying this way, so it might
very well be a real hardware failure.
What you can try: power off the system completely, remove power cable,
wait 10 sec or so, plug in the cable and power on again and see if
something has changed. At least with one piece of (bad) HW this
helped in the past (but it can go wrong again at every boot).
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That fixed it! It now reports the MAC address of "00:04:5A:55:96:57". It
does look like it's at least somewhat hardware-related. The one question I
have, though, is why does this this card work with the wrong MAC address in
Knoppix, but not in Fedora? Could it have to do with Kudzu segfaulting?
Thanks for your help, everybody.
--Dane