On Wednesday 21 July 2004 22:22, Robert Locke wrote: >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.... [...] >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.... :-) Its an onboard ethernet, not a pci card, and it has no burned in MAC address. So when you turn it on in the bios, you must supply a MAC address for it. Its part of whats called the nFORCE2 chipset used on a lot of the newer mobo's. >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.... You may, but please sit down face the audience, we hate talking to the back of a head... :-) That said, a bit tougue-in-cheek, I got some quite useable info here, so you have not wasted your time trying to educate an old fart. My thanks to you, Rob. >--Rob -- Cheers, Gene There are 4 boxes to be used in defense of liberty. Soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order, starting now. -Ed Howdershelt, Author Additions to this message made by Gene Heskett are Copyright 2004, Maurice E. Heskett, all rights reserved.
