FC3 tulip Netgear FA310TX bug apparently fixed

[Bob Chiodini]

On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 21:09 -0500, Robert L Cochran wrote:
> Charles Curley wrote:
> 
> >Old drivers for this device were showing each pair of bytes swapped in
> >the MAC address of one of my Ethernet cards.
> >
> >What I see now is 00:02:E3:09:73:C0. What I used to see is
> >02:00:09:E3:C0:73. The difference came today, when I upgraded the box
> >from FC2 to FC3.
> >
> >The "new" MAC address is consistent with a sticker on the card, so I
> >guess it is the correct one. Also, it agrees with what Windows 9x
> >reported when I used this card in a W9x box. Apparently FC3 has
> >cleared up a bug that the driver has had for several years.
> >
> >  
> >
> I have 2 of these cards -- I've never actually bothered to verify the 
> MAC addresses reported for them, and both are installed on now dead 
> Pentium II/Pentium III machines. But I'm wondering if some other process 
> might have been spoofing the MAC address?
> 
> Bob Cochran
> Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
> 
> 

All,

It's possible that Netgear uses Lite-On's network interface chips, or
vice versa.

Bob...