At 12:08 PM -0400 6/20/98, Amitai Schlair wrote:
>Check out this nifty and interesting output from 'dmesg':
>
>ae0 at nubus0: address 00:00:94:20:ce:ac, type MacCon Ethernet, 32KB
>memory
>ae1 at nubus0: address 00:00:94:04:c4:6b, type MacCon Ethernet, 32KB
>memory
>ae2 at nubus0: address 00:00:00:00:00:00, type Farallon EtherMac II-C,
>32KB memory
>
>I noticed this fascinating MAC address after the card in ae2 stopped
>working. Can someone surmise what might have happened to this card such
>that it reports a string of zeroes, or is this the hardware sense
>routine's way of indicating the card is just dead?

I've heard of some ways some hardware allows a user to change the ethernet
address.  I know the onboard ethernet of some powermacs allows you to do
this. whether this card lets you to do it, I don't know.

Maybe the rom needs a pushed in some more on the card :-)

later,

  - a