Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932371AbWJFOhY (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Oct 2006 10:37:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932377AbWJFOhY (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Oct 2006 10:37:24 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.181]:14603 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932371AbWJFOhX (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Oct 2006 10:37:23 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=P1+m9DAXr0TMIbg65hOcFNQljhmUEiFMz6+ySyNWtnxCm84APMu8kDagAnR+Jn67FtuTMI6a5m3TWlvqII9Lao1ogfNa1+UUFoHKBlswm60Fd3jBofurq3kpkc4jxIgvQipPWYq02aOdMyNBXTKGsrHthhjufkvaFy1CP541dmw= Message-ID: <55c223960610060737p1a5fda6bl95547accc7d96468@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 15:37:22 +0100 From: "Alex Owen" To: "Ayaz Abdulla" Subject: Re: forcedeth net driver: reverse mac address after pxe boot Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20061005193113.GE18408@tuxdriver.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 756 Lines: 17 On 05/10/06, Ayaz Abdulla wrote: > The BIOS will write to the mac address register. The address will be > written in reverse order. (Why does the BIOS have to write it out in reverse order? Seems a bit odd to my simple mind!) > This bug has already been fixed in the PXE code. Can you let me know > what version of PXE you are running (it should display the version on > the screen during boot up)? I was booting with "Nvidia Boot Agent 240.0532" when I encountered this issue. Alex Owen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/