Feyd wrote:

On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 08:42:08 +0100
Simon Kelley [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

The atmel driver includes a small firmware stub which does nothing but 
determine the MAC address, to solve this problem. This is compiled into 

Does it power-down the card after reading the MAC?

Yes, it loads the special firmware, runs it to get the MAC, and then 
returns the card to quiesent state, ready for the real firmware load 
which happens at device open time.

Cheers,

Simon.