Re: 3c556B: no luck with Ubuntu 2.6.10
Bogdan Costescu <[email protected]> Mon, 22 Aug 2005 18:36:57 +0200 (CEST)
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On 19 Aug 2005, Gregory Stark wrote: > I'm having the same problem as the Christian B=F6ttger describes in > http://www.scyld.com/pipermail/vortex/2005-April/002482.html Hmm, I managed to miss both his messages... > *** EEPROM MAC address is invalid. This means that EEPROM reading returned zeros, which probably happens=20 because either: - the EEPROM really contains bad data; very unlikely, but given that there are 2 reports with very similar hardware, it might be possible - the EEPROM is not powered correctly - this is most likely related to=20 some power management (ACPI) changes in the respective kernels. It has=20 nothing to do with the driver per-se; maybe the driver needs to call=20 some power management routine before reading the EEPROM. I think that=20 I've seen in the past months some mention of a patch for 3c59x that=20 said something about power management, but I can't remember clearly... --=20 Bogdan Costescu IWR - Interdisziplinaeres Zentrum fuer Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Universitaet Heidelberg, INF 368, D-69120 Heidelberg, GERMANY Telephone: +49 6221 54 8869, Telefax: +49 6221 54 8868 E-mail: [email protected] _______________________________________________ vortex mailing list [email protected] http://www.scyld.com/mailman/listinfo/vortex