Re: Fedora 16 MAC Address
Chris Bell <[email protected]>
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On Tue 17 Apr, Jason Clifford wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-04-16 at 19:25 +0000, Chris Bell wrote: > > I noticed that the ethernet hardware showed a > > MAC address before the ethernet cable was connected, but is that always > > consistent? Does it change when the cable is connected? > > There is no reason it should. The MAC has nothing to do with the > connectivity status of the interface. It's just the physical layer > address. That it changes means there is either a firmware bug or a bug > in the driver. > > I'd recommend checking the Dell support site to see if there are any > firmware updates for the laptop and apply the latest if there are. > Agreed, I was just trying to ascertain when it was going wrong. -- Chris Bell www.chrisbell.org.uk Microsoft sells you Windows ... Linux gives you the whole house. -- Gllug mailing list - [email protected] http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug