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From: "Carl Gehr" <ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com> Full Headers Undecoded message Subject: Re: [eCS T60/T61] Gigabit driver 8086 1049 Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:20:33 -0400 (EDT) To: "eCS ThinkPad T60/61 Mailing List" <ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com>

On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:09:14 -0600, Chuck McKinnis wrote:

>> I bet you get :\> netstat -n
>> Interface 0  Ethernet-Csmacd
>> physical address    000000000000      MTU 1500
>>
>> What are you plugging into?  Linksys switch?
>>
>> What do you have in your /ibmcom/lantran.log?  Do you get an actual MAC
>> address bound to the adapter?  i.e. WRAPPER hardware init successfull
>> MAC : XXXXXX:XXXXXX?
>
>I am connected to a D-Link Wireless Router.  Lantran.log shows the
>000000:000000.

OK, just my random jumping in to confuse things... ;-)

Is it possible that there is a setting in the router that masks or
hides the MAC?

Another possibility:  The router has a setting that is forcing the MAC
to all zeros.

Now, back to my shell...
Carl

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