PowerBook 3400, wrong HWaddr (MAC) found for NIC

[Henrik Farre]

Yello

On Mon, 08 Apr 2002 10:36:32 -0500
Kurt Sheffer <ksheffer@mindspring.com> wrote:

> What version of the MacOS were you running? You might want to see Apple 
> technote #18731:

MacOS9

> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=18731
> Which describes the answer to the following: "After installing System 
> 7.5 Update 2.0 (System 7.5.3) I noticed the Ethernet hardware address of
> the computer changed from 00:A0:40:xx:xx:xx to 00:05:02:xx:xx:xx."

That is!

> Your machine is not listed among those affected, but the problem sounds 
> so similar...
> Long story short, some NICs manufatured circa 1995 had their MAC address
> stored in the wrong format,

When I registred my NIC I provided the MAC found by ifconfig eth0
(00:0a:40....), and this did not work, neither on linux or MacOS. So I
tryed the MAC found in the TCP/IP control panel (00:05:02) and that
worked. Now I know what the problem is, how do I solve it?

-- 
Mvh. / Kind regards 
Henrik Farre < enrique AT obel DOT auc DOT dk >
- If I were God, I would recompile the penguin with --enable-flying.