[mythtv-users] Yet another motherboard Grrr. The ASUS M2N-MX SE PLUS

Carl Fongheiser carlfongheiser at gmail.com
Mon Jun 23 18:29:39 UTC 2008


On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Mark Greenwood <fatgerman at ntlworld.com>
wrote:

> > PCI: BIOS Bug: MCFG area at e0000000 is not E-820-reserved
> > PCI: Not using MMCONFIG
> > 0000:00:07.0 Invalid Mac address detected: b5:52:17:C6:1f:00
> > Please complain to your hardware vendor. Switching to a random MAC.
>
> The MAC address is the hardware address of your network adapter. This is
> very strange, I've worked in LAN networking for 20 years
>  and never come across that. It's the right number of digits so I'm not
> sure why it's complaining.
>

I'll give you a hint: the multicast bit is set in that address.  My guess is
that the address is stored backwards.

Carl Fongheiser
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