Re: Etherboot-discuss Digest, Vol 41, Issue 10

Thomas Miletich <[email protected]> Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:37:14 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.network.etherboot.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>
> Hi,
> my MAC Adress is reversed in winpe, not in gpxe.
>
> i have a m2n-e with a nvidia nic, chainloading gpxe and booting winpe
> works, but then i have a problem in winpe 2.1, the MAC is reversed.
> Can your hint solve that problem, too?
>

The thing is that the old forcedeth cards store their MAC address in
reverse in the EEPROM, and the new ones store it in the correct order.
The driver has to know whether to reverse the address or take it as-is
from the EEPROM. Maybe the Windows driver you use is confused about
your card's MAC address order.
Check if there's a updated forcedeth driver for Windows available that
could fix this problem.

Please also let us know the MAC address used by Windows and how you
determined the MAC address is in reverse in Windows. Is it the same
order as in gPXE when you boot linux or some other Windows?

Thomas

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