On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 16:19 -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > 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. > > Per http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/index.shtml: Here are the results of your search through the public section of the IEEE Standards OUI database report for 00-02-E3: ________________________________________________________________________ 00-02-E3 (hex) LITE-ON Communications, Inc. 0002E3 (base 16) LITE-ON Communications, Inc. 736 S. Hillview Drive Milpitas CA 95035 UNITED STATES The byte swapped address does not find any matches. It's not Netgear but who can tell anymore. Bob...
