local network using ethernet and modem

[Russell T. Brunet]

Chuck,

I think you may be confused, I was the one with the missing MAC address. I
don't think Yvon ever said he had this problem. My G4 is fine, it is my
PII-266 that is missing a MAC address. I'll check out the driver when I get
home, but I know that the computer sees the card. It just doesn't give me a
MAC address.

Thanks for your help,

Russell



>on 9/13/02 3:54 PM, yvon at yvon.thoraval@free.fr wrote:
>
>> i'm sure now that my ethernet chip is recognised by ydl because i see on
>> the gkrellm slit, under eth0, som packets, and also because the result
>> of ifcong shoes the hardware address of eth0 :
>>
>> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:05:02:EC:D8:47
>> -------------------------------^^^^^--^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>> this is the address no ? Their is no way, i've found, to find the same
>> address at the macos 9.1 side...
>
>This is the MAC address. You can see the MAC address from System Profiler on
>the Mac OS 9 side.
>
>Now that the card can be seen by the system you need to have the correct
>driver to get to the LAN side. I had a card that could be seen by the OS
>(both Linux and OS 9) but couldn't get out on the Linux side. OS 9 did fine
>and I could get out to the WAN just fine.
>
>So the driver on the OS 9 side worked but the driver on the Linux side
>didn't.
>
>If you can get a MAC address then play with the various drivers and see if
>you can get it to work. The chip set will give you a clue on what drivers to
>start playing with.
>
>Chuck
>
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