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RE: CS8900A
- To: Carl van Schaik <carl at leg dot uct dot ac dot za>
- Subject: RE: [ECOS] CS8900A
- From: Gary Thomas <gthomas at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 05:40:32 -0600 (MDT)
- Cc: Ecos Mailing List <ecos-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
On 31-Aug-2000 Carl van Schaik wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have just got ecos running on my own design board using the AT91M40400
> ARM processor. I have included CS8900A ethernet chip and I was wondering
> if anyone knows how to find it's MAC address. We need to add it to the
> dhcp server before it is allowed to use the network here.
>
BTW, if you're using a driver derived from the standard one, you'll see
that the MAC (more properly, ESA) address is pretty hard-wired. If you
get RedBoot running on your board you can have this information stored
in local flash configuration. Alternatively, you can attach a serial
EEPROM to the device and keep it there. In that case though you'd be
on your own since we've never had working hardware with the serial EEPROM
to test/support.