From: Michael Pyne <mpyne@purinchu.net>
To: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/4] forcedeth: fix MAC address detection on network card (regression in 2.6.23) 
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Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 21:06:27 -0500
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On Monday 04 February 2008, Ayaz Abdulla wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Ayaz Abdulla wrote:
> >> I believe Michael determined that a newer BIOS fixes this issue.
> >
> > That's a solution that makes vendors happy... but we still have to deal
> > with it in Linux.  There are plenty of the old broken BIOS still out in
> > the field...
> >
> >     Jeff
>
> Michael, can you provide which BIOS version had this issue and which
> version fixed the issue?

Ayaz,

One of my earlier messages to the list was from BIOS revision F3 from what =
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can tell (which matches pretty well with what I remember having).  I am=20
currently on F8.

I may go back to F3 if I can get booting from USB to work just to verify=20
because I could have sworn it was still broken after going to F8.  But sinc=
e=20
unpatched Linux 2.6.23.12 apparently works fine and I'm not sure when exact=
ly=20
that happened (I use Ketchup to maintain the sources and somewhere it=20
unpatched my forcedeth.c :) I want to double-check that a simple BIOS upgra=
de=20
will solve it.

But I also don't have a lot of time before I go underway for a few months. =
:-/

Regards,
 - Michael Pyne

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