[tulip] Tulip and PowerPC endian issue?

Donald Becker becker@scyld.com
Wed Jan 29 19:57:02 2003


On 29 Jan 2003, Jim Rowe wrote:

> I'm using a Netgear FA511 CardBus PC Card with a Ricoh RL5c476 PCI to
> Cardbus bridge on a PPC platform.
> 
> The MAC address of my card is 00:10:7A:69:F0:79, however ifconfig and
> /var/log/messages report it to be 69:7A:10:00:79:F0. Has anyone else run
> into this problem?
> I'm using the tulip.o driver from the 2.4.19 kernel, along with the
> kernel based card services.

The driver must endian-correct for station address.
The driver in the kernel did not copy the code from my driver correctly,
resulting in this bug.  The driver from Scyld _does_ work correctly.

> Nov 30 00:28:56 eth0 kernel: Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre11
> (May 11, 2002) 
> Nov 30 00:28:56 eth0 kernel: eth1: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at 0x8000,
> 69:7A:10:00:79:F0, IRQ 30

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