[wplug] Multiple NIC, all MACs showing FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF

Michael Semcheski mhsemcheski at gmail.com
Sat Feb 23 17:42:49 EST 2008


Are the nic's EtherExpressPro's?  If they're new, they should probably
use e1000.

Intel does have Linux drivers on their website for most of their
NIC's.  (They even have DOS drivers.)  When in doubt, try a different
module / driver.

That's probably what I would do.  I would guess that its a module
mismatch.  Fixing the MAC address via ifconfig might work, but it
would a happy coincidence, not a proper fix.



On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 5:05 PM, scoob8000 <scoob8000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> So I'm rebuilding my smoothwall box with some new hardware, and to my
>  suprise, all my NICs are showing
>  up with the MAC address of FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF.  I can't seem to
>  distinguish one from another.
>
>  It's detecting the nics as an Intel Ii82557 EtherExpressPro, using the
>  eepro100 module.  I see a lot of
>  google hits with folks running into the same thing.  Module issue?
>
>  I can fix the mac's with ifconfig on bootup, but that doesn't help me
>  during setup because I don't know which
>  nic is for which interface.  :/
>
>  Any advice?
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