Incorrect MAC address on card (00:00:00 in device portion)

[Patrice Vetsel]

On my notebook and with udev ubuntu12 my /etc/iftab contain 2 good definitions for eth0 and eth1 with their MAC adress. (eth0 wlan and eth1 for network card)
But after initialisation, eth0 is renamed eth0_clashed.
For precision the udev ubuntu8 is the last working package, meanwhile it swap eth0 and eth1 randomly.

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

Which version of udev do you have installed? These problems should be fixed in 079-0ubuntu12.

If not, please attach your /etc/iftab and /etc/network/interfaces files AND the output of "ifconfig -a"

Thanks

[Patrice Vetsel (vetsel-patrice)]

These problems are not fixed with udev 079-0ubuntu12.

here are iftab / ifconfig -a / interfaces

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

Please provide the output of the following command:

  /lib/udev/iftab_helper eth0 00:60:B3:97:EF:FB 1

[Patrice Vetsel (vetsel-patrice)]

output is :
eth0

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

You need to reboot after upgrading to udev 0ubuntu12

Then everything should be fine -- your configuration is behaving consistently with the bug being fixed.

[Patrice Vetsel (vetsel-patrice)]

Of course i'v rebooted.
But for you i re-installed a fresh system with dapper daily of 1602 (contain udev ubuntu12)

There is a problem with mac adress i attach informations.

[Patrice Vetsel (vetsel-patrice)]

ifconfig -a and iftab

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

I don't understand what you're showing me here ... your card has a different MAC address to the one named in your iftab file and is clashing ... this is correct behaviour?

[Patrice Vetsel (vetsel-patrice)]

The "real" or "good" mac adress are shown in /etc/iftab

eth0 mac 00:60:b3:97:ef:fb
eth1 mac 00:0a:e4:48:d5:dd

But as shown by "ifconfig -a" the eth0_clashed has a new/different/unknow mac adress

eth0_clas ... HWaddr 00:30:B4:00:00:00

This notebook is working like a charm since first beta of hoary. Wifi card has problem since udev 079-0ubuntu09

I wondering if you test mac adress of the wifi card after or before loading firmware ?!
It's a "Network controller: Intersil Corporation Intersil ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism Duette] (rev 01)"

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

If the MAC address is incorrect in "ifconfig -a" output, then this isn't a udev problem; it doesn't do anything to change those.

We process the event when the kernel indicates that the network device has been added (an "add" uevent from the "network" subsystem), if the driver does this before firmware has been received (and thus before the device is useful) then this is almost certainly a driver bug.

Reassigning to the kernel.

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

Note that a temporary workaround for the user is to place the incorrect MAC address in /etc/iftab instead.

Also, if you could remove the modules that drive both network cards, run "sudo udevmonitor -e", and then load the modules again - and attach the output of that command, we can see what the state of the card is at each point of the module insertion and firmware loading.

[Matthew Garrett (mjg59)]

What driver is being used for this card? Prism54? It's not uncommon for drivers to load firmware when the interface is brought up, which is obviously going to be some time after it's loaded. Why it would have this bizarre address before loading is beyond me, though.

[Patrice Vetsel (vetsel-patrice)]

Ok.
i'v removed prism54
then run
sudo udevmonitor -e
i attach the output when i do a modprobe prism54

More informations :
i edit /etc/iftab to add the wrong/bad mac adress :

# This file assigns persistent names to network interfaces.
# See iftab(5) for syntax.
#eth0 mac 00:60:b3:97:ef:fb
eth0 mac 00:30:b4:00:00:00
eth1 mac 00:0a:e4:48:d5:dd

I do a :
sudo rmmod prism54
sudo insmod prism54

and eth0 is working. The strange part is that if i do a :
sudo ifconfig -a

eth0 Lien encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:B3:97:EF:FB
...

The eth0 card have the right mac adress. This card has 2 mac adress funny not ?! ;)

[sam tygier (samtygier)]

also seening this on a prism54 pcmcia wireless card (netgear wg511). breezy (and the dapper installer) see the mac address as 00:09:5b:e6:4c:03, but dapper sees 00:30:B4:00:00:00.

running 2.6.15-16.23 on powerpc, installed from 20060227 nightly.

[sam tygier (samtygier)]

i have found that activating the card fixes the IP address.

sam@titania-d:~$ ifconfig eth3
eth3 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:B4:00:00:00
          BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:58

sam@titania-d:~$ sudo ifconfig eth3 up
sam@titania-d:~$ ifconfig eth3
eth3 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:09:5B:E6:4C:03
          inet6 addr: fe80::209:5bff:fee6:4c03/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:238 (238.0 b)
          Interrupt:58

[Patrice Vetsel (vetsel-patrice)]

From changelog of linux-source-2.6.15 2.6.15-20.30

   * prism54: Via mjg59:
     - Load firmware before bring up interface.
     - Add prism54 softmac driver.

So I'm waiting for this new version to test if the bug is stille here or not.

[Ante Karamatić (ivoks)]

And?

[Ben Collins (ben-collins)]

Pretty sure that patch fixes it.

[Patrice Vetsel (vetsel-patrice)]

I re-open the bug.
Fresh install of Dapper-beta.
After installation i'v always the problem.
Wifi card is well detected by the installation process.
/etc/iftab contain eth0 mac 00:60:b3:97:ef:fb arp 1

but after reboot a «sudo ifconfig -a» show eth1 (my ethernet card) and wifi is eth2 with incorrect address (HWaddr 00:3D:B4:00:00:00

[Patrice Vetsel (vetsel-patrice)]

Linux 2.6.15-21 resolve that bug. Thanks

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