Re: [Acx100-users] MAC address diffs

[Jeffrey.D.Williams-1 <ang...@ou...>]

Maybe not a bug: who originally wrote the firmware? I know the REed fw I snagged personally off of the eusso.com site, in December. Maybe the firmware does some shortcuts and assumes that the card is a product of whatever company wrote the firmware we are using. Someone ask Felix.

Jeff

----- Original Message -----
From: Ivor Hewitt <iv...@iv...>
Date: Monday, June 9, 2003 5:00 pm
Subject: [Acx100-users] MAC address diffs

> Just a short note re. the MAC address differences some people have 
> mentioned 
> and my observations so far, the difference in the manufacturer ID 
> portion of 
> the MAC:-
> 
> The Mac addresses on the cards I have lying around are:
> Pheenet: 00-03-2F
> USR: 00-C0-49
> DLink: 00-40-05 (actually ANI COMMUNICATIONS INC.)
> 
> However, the second digit is always replaced with "08" with the 
> Linux drivers. 
> This happens with both the reverse engineered and the released 
> binaries.
> Since the MAC is read straight from the card with the 
> "ctlInterrogate" call, 
> this seems rather odd. Perhaps there's a bug in the linux firmware?
> 
> Ivor.
> 
> 
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