[vortex] Re: [3c509] OEM/Ethernet Addr set to 00:00:00:00:00:00?

Tue Jul 23 18:46:02 2002

On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Andrew A. Chen wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Donald Becker wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 achen-scyld@divo.net wrote:

> > >     00: 00e0 1886 4ce8 9200 ffff ffff ffff 6d51
> > >   0x08: 2940 0000 0000 0000 0000 0010 0000 00aa
> > >   0x10: 72a2 0000 0000 0180 0000 0000 0000 10b7
> > >   0x18: 1000 000a 0000 6300 ffb7 b7b7 0000 0000
> > >   0x20: 0000 1234 5670 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> > >       ...
> > >  The word-wide EEPROM checksum is 0xa78b.
> > > Saved EEPROM settings of a 3Com Vortex/Boomerang:
> > >  3Com Node Address 00:E0:18:86:4C:E8 (used as a unique ID only).
> > >  OEM Station address 00:00:00:00:00:00 (used as the ethernet address).
> > >   Manufacture date (MM/DD/YYYY) 15/31/2027, division , product .

So this is a brand-new NIC, never used with another OS, correct?

Did the NIC come with a custom driver?

> This isn't actually onboard the motherboard.  It's a separate PCI adapter
> (also manafactured by Asus, however, and has a warning sticker on it
> saying "Only use in Asus motherboards").  This motherboard was first
> released last september, and I believe the revision I have was updated
> less than 2 months ago.

I think I now understand what is going on.
This appears to be an OEM NIC.  The vendor is supposed program the
following EEPROM fields

Offset Name
 4  Manufacturing Data -- Date
 5  Manufacturing Data -- Division
 6  Manufacturing Data -- Product Code
...
10  OEM node address, word 0
11  OEM node address, word 1
12  OEM node address, word 2

This vendor (Asus) failed to program the device.

> > The fix will involve adding a few lines in vortex-diag to replace the
> > missing fields.

Given that only the OEM fields are bogus, the existing '-H' option will
make your EEPROM functional.

vortex-diag -H 00:E0:18:86:4C:E8 -w -w

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