Re: 73-usb-net-by-mac.rules is no longer used in Bullseye for USB ethernet devices?

From	Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net>
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Subject	Re: 73-usb-net-by-mac.rules is no longer used in Bullseye for USB ethernet devices?
Date	2022-02-22 19:00 +0100
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	Hi.

On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 10:56:43AM -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
> > It's possible, of course. What's also possible is card's EEPROM may have
> > gone haywire. I had a similar problem back in the day with rtl8139 NIC,
> > IIRC. One day the thing simply started to assign itself a random MAC
> > (but worked in every other regard), and since the thing was a part of
> > the motherboard - I had to try almost every workaround in the existence.
> >
> 
> And you checked to make certain that really really really no firmware
> upgrades took place in the meantime?

Of course I'm sure. I'd remember rewriting card's EEPROM.
That NIC had only built-in impossible to upgrade firmware, just in case.

And in the grand scheme of things ever-changing MAC was a nuisance, not
a problem. Changing the MAC on boot was a klugde, but it worked.

> Or downgrades?

See above.

> Not even from some dual-booted OS on the same box?

I don't do dual-boot for last 20 years at least. Dual-boot may be useful
to someone, but I have no need of it.

Besides, I don't own that hardware anymore. Unless I'm mistaken, it was
"retired" to a nearest garbage dump.

Reco

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73-usb-net-by-mac.rules is no longer used in Bullseye for USB  ethernet devices? Flacusbigotis <flacusbigotis@gmail.com> - 2022-02-16 11:00 +0100
  Re: 73-usb-net-by-mac.rules is no longer used in Bullseye for USB  ethernet devices? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2022-02-16 15:50 +0100
    Re: 73-usb-net-by-mac.rules is no longer used in Bullseye for USB  ethernet devices? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-02-16 16:00 +0100
  Re: 73-usb-net-by-mac.rules is no longer used in Bullseye for USB  ethernet devices? Flacusbigotis <flacusbigotis@gmail.com> - 2022-02-17 07:40 +0100
    Re: 73-usb-net-by-mac.rules is no longer used in Bullseye for USB  ethernet devices? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2022-02-17 08:10 +0100
      Re: 73-usb-net-by-mac.rules is no longer used in Bullseye for USB  ethernet devices? Flacusbigotis <flacusbigotis@gmail.com> - 2022-02-22 03:00 +0100
        Re: 73-usb-net-by-mac.rules is no longer used in Bullseye for USB  ethernet devices? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2022-02-22 12:20 +0100
          Re: 73-usb-net-by-mac.rules is no longer used in Bullseye for USB  ethernet devices? Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2022-02-22 18:00 +0100
            Re: 73-usb-net-by-mac.rules is no longer used in Bullseye for USB  ethernet devices? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2022-02-22 19:00 +0100
        Re: 73-usb-net-by-mac.rules is no longer used in Bullseye for USB  ethernet devices? Flacusbigotis <flacusbigotis@gmail.com> - 2022-02-23 05:40 +0100
          Re: 73-usb-net-by-mac.rules is no longer used in Bullseye for USB  ethernet devices? Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2022-02-23 10:20 +0100
            Re: 73-usb-net-by-mac.rules is no longer used in Bullseye for USB  ethernet devices? Flacusbigotis <flacusbigotis@gmail.com> - 2022-02-23 18:50 +0100

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