On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Bob Chiodini wrote: > 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. My Netgear cards (00-A0-CC) also show up as Lite-On in lspci and at the above Website. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
