Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760144AbZDHFyy (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Apr 2009 01:54:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757960AbZDHFyo (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Apr 2009 01:54:44 -0400 Received: from mms3.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.19]:2522 "EHLO MMS3.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756038AbZDHFyn convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Apr 2009 01:54:43 -0400 X-Server-Uuid: B55A25B1-5D7D-41F8-BC53-C57E7AD3C201 From: "Michael Chan" To: "'Robin Holt'" , "Matthew Carlson" , "David S. Miller" , "Benjamin Li" cc: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" , "Linus Torvalds" Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 22:54:33 -0700 Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.30-rc1 Thread-Topic: Linux 2.6.30-rc1 Thread-Index: Acm4DB0NR/3C4BloSpqLEImsrhC8DwACLITw Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20090408053721.GE10768@sgi.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US MIME-Version: 1.0 X-WSS-ID: 65C2E3935Y817732127-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 951 Lines: 28 Robin Holt wrote: > Booting an ia64 box with a tg3 adapter results in no network. > If I look > at the MAC address of the adapter, it has changed radically from the > original MAC. The original MAC continues to be reported by EFI and > booting an old kernel gets the correct MAC. > > Good MAC: 08:00:69:13:E6:3C > Bad MAC: 00:00:3C:E6:13:69 (recreated from memory) Looks like endian swapped. Can you provide the entire tg3 signon string? Please also dump the beginning part of the nvram: ethtool -e eth0 length 0x90 > > If I set the MAC using ifconfig, then everything works normally. > The bad MAC address that has been swapped is also a valid MAC address and should still work though. -- 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/