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List:       linux-kernel
Subject:    Re: forcedeth net driver: reverse mac address after pxe boot
From:       Alan Cox <alan () lxorguk ! ukuu ! org ! uk>
Date:       2006-10-04 17:30:49
Message-ID: 1159983049.25772.84.camel () localhost ! localdomain
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Ar Mer, 2006-10-04 am 17:19 +0100, ysgrifennodd Alex Owen:
> The obvious fix for this is to try and read the MAC address from the
> canonical location... ie where is the source of the address writen
> into the controlers registers at power on? But do we know where that
> may be?

Why not check if the first or last 3 bytes are the Nvidia owner bits.
The only card that will misdetect is 

00:16:17:17:16:00

which doesn't matter anyway

Alan

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