Hi there, I have a laptop of this Dell-crap type. It's running a 3com NIC which used to have the following MAC address: 00:c0:26:ed:4a:ce After some DVD watching without it power, it just shut down and rebooted fine. However, it now appears to have the MAC 00:08:74:96:de:6a. I know I can change the MAC address with ifconfig, but that's always just a temporary change for the duration of existence of the driver. Upon reboot, or upon rmmod && insmod, the MAC address is restored to the original. In this case, however, the MAC address changed and stays that way over rmmod && insmod as well as over a reboot. What the heck is going on? How can this possibly happen? -- Please do not CC me! Mutt (www.mutt.org) can handle this automatically. .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system NOTE: The pgp.net keyservers and their mirrors are broken! Get my key here: http://people.debian.org/~madduck/gpg/330c4a75.asc
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