Re: Update - Re: Weird Network Card problems - 2

[Ajit Warrier <unixajit yahoo com>]

Ok Nigel, I will try that next.

Thanks,

Ajit

--- Nigel Wade <nmw ion le ac uk> wrote:
> On Saturday 04 Jan 2003 6:28 pm, Ajit Warrier wrote:
> 
> > At any rate, I can ping the IP of eth0. Cannot
> ping
> > any other IPs in the internal network. And I still
> do
> > get a different MAC address than when I am in
> Win98 on
> > the same machine. I know that each card in the
> world
> > has a unique MAC address and that it is not
> possible
> > for a card to have different MAC's in different
> OS's,
> > but it *is* nevertheless happening.
> >
> > Could it be that eth0 is only a virtual adapter
> (the
> > physical adapter not getting detected at all) and
> so
> > it can ping itself and nothing else? Because in
> dmesg
> > I get the message -
> >
> > eth0: Digital DS21143 Tulip rev 48 at 0xc48e0000,
> > EEPROM not present, 00:4c:69:6e:75:79, IRQ 11
> >
> > Any ideas? In case it helps, I can send a detailed
> > document showing my network, IPs etc and any other
> > file that may help, as attachement. Just say the
> word
> > - I am desperate here!
> >
> 
> I noticed in a previous post that your ifcfg-eth0
> has the line in it:
> HWADDR=00:4c:69:6e:75:79
> Is this the real MAC address of the card, or is it
> the one which are saying is 
> incorrect? What happens if you remove this line?
> 
> Maybe the tulip driver is looking for a card with
> that MAC address and is 
> failing, hence the error message?
> 
> -- 
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> Physics Group,
>             University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1
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