On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Mark Greenwood <<a href="mailto:fatgerman@ntlworld.com">fatgerman@ntlworld.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">> PCI: BIOS Bug: MCFG area at e0000000 is not E-820-reserved<br>
> PCI: Not using MMCONFIG<br>
> 0000:00:07.0 Invalid Mac address detected: b5:52:17:C6:1f:00<br>
> Please complain to your hardware vendor. Switching to a random MAC.<br>
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</div>The MAC address is the hardware address of your network adapter. This is very strange, I've worked in LAN networking for 20 years<br>
and never come across that. It's the right number of digits so I'm not sure why it's complaining.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"></div></blockquote><div><br>I'll give you a hint: the multicast bit is set in that address. My guess is that the address is stored backwards. <br></div><br>Carl Fongheiser<br></div><br>