Lost MAC address?

I have one of those ultra-cheap RTL-8129 NICs in a home machine. This
morning it refused to get on the network. Checking the server logs I find:

Mar 6 07:20:37 tooth dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:00:00:00:00:00 via eth0:
network SEINERNET: no free leases

WTF? It looks like the NIC lost its MAC address.... I don't think this
is configurable in any way....

Is this card cooked? Stary cosmic ray hit it overnight?

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Captain Dondo wrote:
> I have one of those ultra-cheap RTL-8129 NICs in a home machine. This
> morning it refused to get on the network. Checking the server logs I find:
>
> Mar 6 07:20:37 tooth dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:00:00:00:00:00 via eth0:
> network SEINERNET: no free leases
>
> WTF? It looks like the NIC lost its MAC address.... I don't think this
> is configurable in any way....
>
> Is this card cooked? Stary cosmic ray hit it overnight?
>

What does

ifconfig -a

report about the card?

Maybe the warranty period is over ...

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Captain Dondo wrote:

> I have one of those ultra-cheap RTL-8129 NICs in a home machine. This
> morning it refused to get on the network. Checking the server logs I
find:
>
> Mar 6 07:20:37 tooth dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:00:00:00:00:00 via eth0:
> network SEINERNET: no free leases
>
> WTF? It looks like the NIC lost its MAC address.... I don't think this
> is configurable in any way....
>
> Is this card cooked? Stary cosmic ray hit it overnight?
>

What you don't tell us is the actual MAC address it's now reporting. If it's
FF:FF:FF:FF etc then its ROM is screwed. Try this:

service network stop
mii-tool -R
service network start




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