Re: Newer kernel for N4100?
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 06:20:47AM -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote:
> Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > * Bill Gatliff <bgat@billgatliff.com> [2008-09-08 14:30]:
> >> So now the kernel is very happy talking to the drives, apparently. But it
> >> doesn't like the e1000's:
> > I thought you were aware of this, but in case you're not: Thecus
> > removed the EEPROM from both i82541 chips and stored the MAC address
> > in the RedBoot configuration area.
> Yep. The head-scratching part is figuring out a way to tell the e1000 driver to
> keep the MAC that's already programmed. I don't see a robust, convenient way to
> do that with the existing driver.
Perhaps the e1000 driver developers have a idea howto support cleanly
e1000 devices on embedded systems without eeprom?
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