Michal Zugec schreef:
This is probably bug in network card driver that provides random MAC address when initialized. Search our bugzilla for that (there is one open bug for that). Sorry I can't do it myself now
This bug : https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=339482
Michal
Thank you, but I think this s something different. Some investigation (under vista with all the correct drivers) that I have a NVDIA nforce networking controller. Googeling on the internet I found he same problem many times and always related to nvida netw controllers. At the end I found this piece of text:
The nvidia MAC has for many years now for some stupid reason had it's MAC address stored in reverse order on almost all boards that use it (not sure if the documentation was confusing or what). As a result the driver has had to reverse it before using it. A few months ago some board makers decided to "fix" the problem and start storing the MAC in the correct order which of course now breaks all existing drivers that "know" the MAC address is in reverse order.
The kernel developers are aware of this and are trying to come up with a way for the driver to detect which way the address is stored and do the right thing based on it. Any solution is going to appear at earliest in 2.6.24 as far as I can tell. You can do a search of lkml (linux kernel mailing list) to get more details on it.
Maybe can anybody tell me if this is known at opensuse ? Hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-networking+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-networking+help@opensuse.org