[CUWiN-Dev] patch: prevent mac duplication

[Zachary C. Miller]

Dave you are my hero. That "default" PCMCIA MAC is definitely the one
that the "east of Vine" nodes started using. And they are both the
older PCMCIA style boards rather than the Mini-PCI metrix boxes. So
this patch should definitely fix those. 

It'd be great if we could get an 0.5.4 (or 0.5.4.1) release that has
only 1 DNS server and this patch in it. I can work on making such a
release later this week if Chase is too beleaguered to worry about
both 0.5.4 AND 0.5.5. 

David Young wrote:
> NetBSD these days tries to read the MAC address from the PCMCIA CIS.
> Senao sets the MAC in every PCMCIA CIS to 00:02:6f:00:02:15.  This is
> probably the bug that bit the nodes east of Vine, causing the MAC
> duplication.
> 
> This patch uses the MAC that the firmware tells us, resorting to the
> CIS MAC only on error.
> 
> I humbly ask our beleaguered release manager to apply this patch to the
> C-U Wireless NetBSD sources.
> 
> Dave
> 
> -- 
> David Young             OJC Technologies
> dyoung at ojctech.com      Urbana, IL * (217) 278-3933

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