FC3 tulip Netgear FA310TX bug apparently fixed

[Robert L Cochran]

Matthew Saltzman wrote:

>On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Bob Chiodini wrote:
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>>On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 16:19 -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
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>>>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.
>>>
>>>Does anyone have a list of Ethernet vendor IDs  they can check against
>>>this MAC address? That should tell for sure which is correct.
>>>
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>>Per http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/index.shtml:
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>>Here are the results of your search through the public section of the
>>IEEE Standards OUI database report for 00-02-E3:
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>>________________________________________________________________________
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>>00-02-E3   (hex)		LITE-ON Communications, Inc.
>>0002E3     (base 16)		LITE-ON Communications, Inc.
>>				736 S. Hillview Drive
>>				Milpitas CA 95035
>>				UNITED STATES
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>>The byte swapped address does not find any matches.  It's not Netgear
>>but who can tell anymore.
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>My Netgear cards (00-A0-CC) also show up as Lite-On in lspci and at the
>above Website.
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And so did both of mine.

Bob