Re: Ultra5 - Potato - Multiple HME Interfaces

[Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>]

Dennis Keller <dennis@bullamanka.com> writes:

> I have an UltraSPARC 5 running debian (potato). Everything runs very
> well except when I insert a second Ethernet Card. The built-in HME card is
> recognized and configured properly by the kernel. The problem occurs when
> I add the second hme card. The kernel assignes the first card's MAC addr
> to both cards. At that point, all networking fails.
> 
> I understand that when loading the sunhme module, the kernel may retrieve
> the MAC addr from openboot. Openboot seems to only know the addr for the
> primary (built-in) card.
> 
> Has anyone else experienced this? Did I miss a line on the webpage that
> describes how to get around this?

That's how suns behave. You can change it in openboot with
setenv local-mac-address? if memory serves well...

Phil.