Behaviour when ethernet MAC is 00:00:00:00:00:00 ?

KH KH kwizart at gmail.com
Mon Nov 19 15:52:19 UTC 2007


2007/11/19, Michael Wiktowy <michael.wiktowy at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> It seems recently one of my two onboard NICs has decided to not
> remember its MAC address between reboots. Since I just updated the
> BIOS firmware, I suspect that as the culprit but I also upgraded to
> Fedora 8 about the same time so it may be to blame. I don't know.
When you update the bios, the tool accept a parameter for the mac
address.. Each time you flash the bios, you need to give the mac
address for the integrated ethernet (usually written on the top of the
mainboard ), so it can be hardcoded into the bios...

Nicolas (kwizart)




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