I've instaled Gentoo 2007.0 with gentoo-sources-2.6.20-r8 with support tu forcedeth. The driver version is 0.59. Every time module is loaded the driver assign a new MAC Address to the NIC, that causes to UDEV assign a new interface eth0->eth1>eth2->...!!! This make to be impossible to dhcpcd give a IP to the interface. Anyone can help me??? Thanks. Pedro Paixão
Portage 2.1.2.9 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r3, 2.6.20-gentoo-r8-paixao x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.20-gentoo-r8-paixao x86_64 AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-56 Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:50:01 +0000 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.23b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://darkstar.ist.utl.pt/gentoo/ ftp://darkstar.ist.utl.pt/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.rnl.ist.utl.pt/pub/gentoo/ http://cesium.di.uminho.pt/pub/gentoo/ ftp://cesium.di.uminho.pt/pub/gentoo/ http://ftp.dei.uc.pt/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.dei.uc.pt/pub/linux/gentoo/ " LINGUAS="pt_PT en_GB" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X Xaw3d a52 aac acpi alsa amd64 ao apache2 arts audiofile bash-completion bcmath bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo caps cddb cdinstall cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt cups curl curlwrappers dbus device-mapper dga disk-partition dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdnav dvdr dvdread emacs encode exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg fftw firefox flac fltk foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gimp gimpprint gpm hal hpn iconv idn ieee1394 imagemagick imlib innodb iodbc ipv6 isdnlog jabber jack java javascript jbig jikes jpeg jpeg2k kde kdepim lash lesstif libnotify libsamplerate libwww mad mhash midi mikmod mime mmap mmx mmxext mng motif mp3 mpeg mpi mplayer msn mudflap mule mysql mysqli nas ncurses network-cron nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin odbc offensive ogg openal opengl openmp osc pam pam_timestamp pcmcia pcntl pcre pda pdf php png portaudio posix ppds pppd pt qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl sharedmem slang sndfile sockets sox speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg symlink szip tcl tetex theora threads tidy tiff tk truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l vcd videos vim-syntax vorbis wddx wifi x264 xcomposite xine xinerama xml xorg xosd xpm xprint xsl xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="X xosd" LINGUAS="pt_PT en_GB" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vesa" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Try w/ >=gentoo-sources-2.6.21-r4; if that doesn't help, attach the relevant dmesg output here. Thanks.
(In reply to comment #2) gentoo-sources-2.6.21-r4 is not available for amd64
(In reply to comment #3) > (In reply to comment #2) > gentoo-sources-2.6.21-r4 is not available for amd64 Sure it is... echo "~sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.21 ~amd64" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
Tested with gentoo-sources-2.6.21-r4. Same problem. dmesg | grep eth: forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.60. forcedeth: using HIGHDMA eth0: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 0103c:30b7 bound to 0000:00:14.0 eth7: no IPv6 routers present
Well, no idea then. This was supposed to be fixed in 0.57. Your BIOS is broken for sure.
I've upgraded the bios for teh latest version before post this bug.
(In reply to comment #7) > I've upgraded the bios for teh latest version before post this bug. Well, then you should try other BIOS versions; it's (still/again?) broken.
Can you please test with gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r1 and post the following: - kernel .config - dmesg output - output of: lspci -vv Thanks.
Created attachment 125807 [details] .config file from gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r1
Created attachment 125808 [details] dmesg output
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OK, this is not a kernel bug, but a hardware issue. See these two lines from your dmesg output: 0000:00:14.0: Invalid Mac address detected: 00:00:00:00:00:00 Please complain to your hardware vendor. Switching to a random MAC. That's why the NIC gets a different MAC address assigned each time. You've mentioned you've already tried a BIOS update, so I guess it's time to take this up with your motherboard vendor.
FWIW, I once saw this behaviour on an nforce board, and I found that the BIOS actually had an option to set the MAC address. Setting it to anything other than the default caused Linux (and Windows) to see the MAC address printed on the board itself.
