[FC1], 2.6.8-rc2 kernel, new motherboard problems
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Thu Jul 22 03:18:33 UTC 2004
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 22:22, Robert Locke wrote:
>On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 21:07, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Am I on the right trail here, or am I getting colder?
>
>I honestly don't know about your card. I missed the earlier part of
> the thread where you first started asking about manually specifying
> a Hardware/MAC address for your NIC. I am just an old Cisco guy
> who felt the need to clarify the use of the term switch....
[...]
>Why not just use the MAC address that is burned in to the NIC, or am
> I rehashing stuff you've already worked on with Gene - at which
> point just tell me to go back into my lurking corner.... :-)
Its an onboard ethernet, not a pci card, and it has no burned in MAC
address. So when you turn it on in the bios, you must supply a MAC
address for it. Its part of whats called the nFORCE2 chipset used on
a lot of the newer mobo's.
>In looking at your recent lspci, I have never heard of nVidia making
>NICs, just graphics cards, so is there actually a driver available
> for that NIC? Of course, that is probably what you are asking
> us....
>
>Maybe I am not helping on this one.......... returning to my
> corner....
You may, but please sit down face the audience, we hate talking to the
back of a head... :-)
That said, a bit tougue-in-cheek, I got some quite useable info here,
so you have not wasted your time trying to educate an old fart. My
thanks to you, Rob.
>--Rob
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Cheers, Gene
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Additions to this message made by Gene Heskett are Copyright 2004,
Maurice E. Heskett, all rights reserved.
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