[U-Boot-Users] eth0: Invalid ethernet MAC address

kabbin kabbin26 at yahoo.com.tw
Fri Sep 1 08:22:23 CEST 2006


Dear All
  I faild to mount NFS, but TFTPis fine in U-boot.

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eth0: SMC91C94 (rev 9) at 0xc4858300 IRQ 188 [nowait]
eth0: Invalid ethernet MAC address.  Please set using ifconfig
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IP-Config: Failed to open eth0
IP-Config: Guessing netmask 255.255.0.0
IP-Config: Complete:
      device=tap0, addr=140.92.60.146, mask=255.255.0.0, gw=255.255.255.255,
     host=140.92.60.146, domain=, nis-domain=(none),
     bootserver=255.255.255.255, rootserver=140.92.60.138, rootpath=
Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 140.92.60.138
portmap: server 140.92.60.138 not responding, timed out
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How can I use the correct MAC address? 

I have read the FAQ, so maybe there are some problems on linux kernel side.
http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/EthernetDoesNotWorkInLinux
I also reference to 
http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2004-July/023579.html
But I still have no idea how to deal with it. 
Could someone help me please?





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