Old drivers for this device were showing each pair of bytes swapped in
the MAC address of one of my Ethernet cards.
What I see now is 00:02:E3:09:73:C0. What I used to see is
02:00:09:E3:C0:73. The difference came today, when I upgraded the box
from FC2 to FC3.
The "new" MAC address is consistent with a sticker on the card, so I
guess it is the correct one. Also, it agrees with what Windows 9x
reported when I used this card in a W9x box. Apparently FC3 has
cleared up a bug that the driver has had for several years.
Does anyone have a list of Ethernet vendor IDs they can check against
this MAC address? That should tell for sure which is correct.
[root@jhereg ~]# ifconfig eth1
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:E3:09:73:C0
inet addr:192.168.1.14 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::202:e3ff:fe09:73c0/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1806 errors:4 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1913 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:172615 (168.5 KiB) TX bytes:1524197 (1.4 MiB)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xc000
From LSPCI:
00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 20)
Subsystem: Netgear FA310TX
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
I/O ports at b000 [size=256]
Memory at d7801000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
lsmod reports the tulip driver present.
I am putting this on the list so that anyone else who uses this (or a
similar) card won't be caught and surprised as I was.
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