Comment 38 for bug 153727

> i wasn't aware that this chip was associated with this bug.

It wasn't until now. Or do you mean that this bug report is meant to cover only specific chips? From the description and comments I thought it was a generic bug covering 70-persistent-net.rules incrementing incorrectly on any net hardware, but I can move to a different bug (or file a new one)
if you prefer.

I'm attaching the full dmesg log. The part where the net card is initialized and the MAC address printed is:

[ 0.475359] via-rhine: Broken BIOS detected, avoid_D3 enabled.
[ 0.475436] via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.4.3 2007-03-06 Written by Donald Becker
[ 0.475512] via-rhine 0000:00:12.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKA] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
[ 0.479677] eth0: VIA Rhine II at 0xe8101000, 00:50:8d:c0:b9:30, IRQ 10.
[ 0.480447] eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x786d advertising 05e1 Link 45e1.

ifconfig for the card is:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:8d:c0:b9:30
          inet addr:192.168.1.5 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::250:8dff:fec0:b930/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:257 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:264 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:117439 (117.4 KB) TX bytes:23805 (23.8 KB)
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0x8000

MAC is 00:50:8d:c0:b9:30 in both.

I didn't quite follow the forcedeth discussion earlier in the bug. Isn't forcedeth some kind of nvidia thing? I don't have any nvidia here. Should I try installing forcedeth-dkms anyway?