A7N8X-E Deluxe - Onboard NIC, No MAC Address ?

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Michael Hudson

Just purchased this board and have spent a while trying to get the onboard
NIC to work (10/100). DHCP will not issue an address and finally just put a
3com in to see what is going on. Still not working but discovered all my
DHCP addresses have been leased to MAC address 00-00-00-00-00-00 and it
turns out this is the default of the onboard NIC.

Is this normal ? I have never seen network hardware without a built in MAC
address before ! There is a setting to set it in Network settings but I find
it very unusual.

Regards

Michael
 
Michael said:
Just purchased this board and have spent a while trying to get the
onboard NIC to work (10/100). DHCP will not issue an address and
finally just put a 3com in to see what is going on. Still not
working but discovered all my DHCP addresses have been leased to MAC
address 00-00-00-00-00-00 and it turns out this is the default of the
onboard NIC.
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That shouldn't be the default MAC address. You should find the correct MAC
address on a sticker somewhere on the board, can't remember if it's on an
IDE or floppy connector or something.
Is this normal ? I have never seen network hardware without a built
in MAC address before ! There is a setting to set it in Network
settings but I find it very unusual.
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Sometimes you can lose the MAC adress when flashing the BIOS, there should
be an option for AWDFlash to set it.

Ben
 
"Michael Hudson" said:
Just purchased this board and have spent a while trying to get the onboard
NIC to work (10/100). DHCP will not issue an address and finally just put a
3com in to see what is going on. Still not working but discovered all my
DHCP addresses have been leased to MAC address 00-00-00-00-00-00 and it
turns out this is the default of the onboard NIC.

Is this normal ? I have never seen network hardware without a built in MAC
address before ! There is a setting to set it in Network settings but I find
it very unusual.

Regards

Michael
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There is some info here:
http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=21050

Paul
 
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