Per his earlier posts, he seems to have an onboard NIC without a "burned in" MAC. I'm not familiar with NVidia making NIC's, but my Son has a winders gaming system which has a Asus board with NVidia everything. (except NIC)On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 21:07, Gene Heskett wrote:
Am I on the right trail here, or am I getting colder?
I honestly don't know about your card. I missed the earlier part of the thread where you first started asking about manually specifying a Hardware/MAC address for your NIC. I am just an old Cisco guy who felt the need to clarify the use of the term switch....
But back to your changing the MAC address. Why are you needing to do this? Frankly the last time I had to worry about creating LAAs (Locally Administered Addresses - an IBMism from the Token Ring days), was with some, I think it was, Western Digital Ethernet cards right before they sold their NIC card business to SMC and were dumping cards into distribution that had duplicate MAC addresses. Only a problem if we sold the cards to the same reseller (of course, they came in 5-packs...). This was back in 1989 or 1990, if I remember correctly, and were a manufacturing mistake....
Why not just use the MAC address that is burned in to the NIC, or am I rehashing stuff you've already worked on with Gene - at which point just tell me to go back into my lurking corner.... :-)
In looking at your recent lspci, I have never heard of nVidia making NICs, just graphics cards, so is there actually a driver available for that NIC? Of course, that is probably what you are asking us....
Maybe I am not helping on this one.......... returning to my corner....
--Rob
Now to the original issue:
Pardon if I am making incorrect assumptions, but I would go back through the manual that came with the MoBo and try to find some reference to a "default" MAC if for no other reason than knowing you at least have the right manufacturer's prefix.
Try the following url, if the above proves in vain:
http://www.coe.uky.edu/~stu/nic/nic.cfm
It's a cross-reference of MAC to Manufacturer and vice versa.
Joebewan
