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

[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

 

[Ben Pope]

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.

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.

Sometimes you can lose the MAC adress when flashing the BIOS, there should
be an option for AWDFlash to set it.

Ben

 

[Paul]

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

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

Paul