My pcchips m787cl+ with the sis630e chipset started reporting a 00:00..00 mac address. It was working at first, but somewhere in the process of debugging I started getting all zeros.
I looked thorough the linuxbios and the sis900.c driver, and I think everything is being setup correctly. I even wrote a small program to read the eeprom directly (rather than the APC cmos), following the code in the sis driver, and I always read zeroes. I cannot ever seem to get a 1 on DO (b1 of IO reg 0x2008).
I put the orig bios back in and booted Linux and same result, so I am pretty sure the eeprom got erased (or is dead).
Anybody (ollie?) know if there is a way to re-write the eeprom? The ifconfig command will set the mac to any value but it doesn't last through reboots, and I did not see any code in the driver that appears to write to the eeprom.
The bios that came with the board does not seem to have a way to set it either.
BTW, I have the text mode vga going on this mobo if anyone is interested in the code. I was able to use my stpc vga code with only a few changes.
-Steve