[tulip] Followup to: MAC address not reported correctly ??!!!!

[Dan Hollis]

On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Donald Becker wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, c.s.h. wrote:
> > tulip.c:v0.92i 7/31/2000  Written by Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
> >   http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html
> > eth0: Digital DS21140 Tulip rev 34 at 0xc8859000, 00:40:F0:40:FE:68,
> OK, that looks like a reasonable station address.

Vendor "0040F0  Micro Systems Inc"

Correct vendor for Kingston is "00C0F0  Kingston Technology Corporation"

> > EEPROM size is 6.
> > PCI Subsystem IDs, vendor 2646, device 0001.
> This card has a specific subsystem ID.  Mostly unimportant, but I'm guessing
> that the vendor driver looks for this ID to rewrite the station address.
> > EEPROM contents:
> >   2646 0001 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> >   006b 0103 4000 40f0 68fe 1e00 0000 0800
>               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> This is the station address location in the standard EEPROM format.

Why dont they write the bloody PROM correctly.

-Dan