In message 47F3F98010FF784EBEE6526EAAB078D1C05E9D@tq-mailsrv.tq-net.de you wrote:
I'm also not very happy with this. 'ethaddr' is already passed to the linux kernel as boot parameter. But I didn' have access to it from user space. Our customer (which buys the CMC-PU2 board from us), runs
Of course you can read the MAC address from user space.
Just use the standard tools:
bash-2.05b# uname -a Linux cmcpu2 2.4.27-vrs1 #1 Sat Oct 8 18:00:54 MEST 2005 armv4l armv4l armv4l GNU/Linux --------------^^^^^^ CMC-OU2 board bash-2.05b# ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr F6:70:1D:61:B5:9D ----------------------------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ MAC address. inet addr:192.168.20.1 Bcast:192.168.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:14238 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:8864 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:12536644 (11.9 Mb) TX bytes:1382448 (1.3 Mb) Interrupt:24 Base address:0xc000
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk