Re: [Nolug] Suddenly, invalid MAC address

On Saturday 15 February 2003 11:30 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:

Power problems can cause all sorts of goofy stuff ... I stupidly had a
laser printer plugged into the same socket (in a UPS no less) as a my
pc once, caused all sorts of weirdness until finally the power supply
in the pc just died.

> Hi,
>
> I had to reboot my machine tonight, because it seemed like
> my keyboard went bonkers (I could only get lowercase when
> CAPS LOCK was on, and I couldn't get chars like comma, dot &
> slash, but only left-angle, right-angle & question-mark). A
> check of the temp in the BIOS didn't show anything too high:
> CPU 50C & mobo 29C
>
> When I rebooted the machine, eth0 wouldn't come up. A check
> of syslog said "Invalid MAC Address".
>
> How could this be, when that card was working not 5 minutes
> beforehand?
>
> The machine is off now, just in case it was a heat problem.
>
> Thanks,
> Ron

-- 
Tim Kelley
tpk at 23rdward dot org
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