Jerry Geis spake the following on 4/18/2007 11:18 AM:
I have not see this before... Installing centos 5 on m2n-mx motherboard the onboard forcedeth driver loads and says invalid mac address "97:42:40:F3:18:00"
Anyone else ever seen this before? Is it fixable? I went to support.asus.com and searched for "invalid mac address" they say sorry no data.
Jerry
It is all over Google. It seems to be a problem with the Asus bios and the mac address settings. You either will have to set a fixed mac address in the config file and hope it isn't already take out in the world, or get Asus to fix your problem. If you go with a fixed address, look on your board to see if they attached the mac address to a sticker somewhere and use that. It will most likely be the correct address.
Is there a bios update for the board? It might fix it.