Hi All,
(first of all my apologize if this mailing list is not the relevant place for
my question)
I use FC4 and installed a PCI Ethernet card based on chip RealTek 8139
and received the following info during probing:
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8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:0b.0[A] -> Link [LNKG] -> GSI 10 (level, low) ->
IRQ 10
8139too: 0000:01:0b.0: unknown chip version, assuming RTL-8139
8139too: 0000:01:0b.0: TxConfig = 0xffffffff
eth1: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xb800, ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, IRQ 10
eth1: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139'
(...)
and when using ifconfig:
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
inet6 addr: fe80::fdff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:4294960281 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xb800
which seems correct ?
but when starting pppoe:
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13 17:08:14 localhost adsl-connect: ADSL connection lost; attempting
re-connection.
Aug 13 17:08:19 localhost pppd[4479]: pppd 2.4.2 started by root, uid 0
Aug 13 17:08:19 localhost pppoe[4480]: Interface eth1 has broadcast/multicast
MAC address??
Aug 13 17:08:19 localhost pppd[4479]: Couldn't get channel number:
Input/output error
Aug 13 17:08:19 localhost pppd[4479]: Exit.
(...)
My questions:
- what about an ethernet card without detected HWaddr ?
- does it prevent to use it for pppoe or any Ethernet connections ?
Thanks,
Bruno
