Matthew Saltzman wrote:
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:
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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.
And so did both of mine.
Bob
