Subject: Re: mac address rewriting
To: Allen Briggs <briggs@netbsd.org>
From: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>
List: current-users
Date: 12/14/2004 14:17:52
On 14-Dec-04, at 1:19 PM, Allen Briggs wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 08:32:40PM +0100, Christian Goetz wrote:
>> I get a mac address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff when booting netbsd 1.6.2
>> Can anybody tell me if there is a way to overwrite it ?
>
> This likely means that your ethernet is not being properly supported.
> Can you post a dmesg?
>

Last time I had a similar problem, it turned out to be a delay() in the 
fxp_probe/fxp_attach that was too short.  My one commit last year was 
related to this.