[ECOS] edb7xxx MAC address

Cristian VLASIN cris@astechnix.cluj.astral.ro
Mon Feb 4 09:04:00 GMT 2002


On Thursday 31 January 2002 03:43 pm, you wrote:
> Jesper Skov wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 21:57, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> > > Cristian VLASIN wrote:
> > > >         Hi,
> > > >
> > > >         I am working with an edb7xxx card and I have a problem
> > > > setting the MAC(ESA) address (I get a constant FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF)
> > > >
> > > >         The problem is that in the configuration tool V2.03 the
> > > > checkbox called "set the ethernet station address", in the "EBD7xxx
> > > > ethernet port driver",  is disabled and I cannot click it to activate
> > > > this feature. Can anyone tell me what to do to have that checkbox
> > > > active?
> > >
> > > I don't know why but that option has been hard-coded to 0.
> >
> > Don't know. Probably a mistake. Looks like the code should support it.
>
> Christian, care to edit the .cdl file for the EDB7xxx package (in
> devs/eth/arm/edb7xxx/current/cdl/ ) and change the "calculated 0" for that
> option to "default_value 0". If that all works for you, let us know and we
> can change it in the main sources.
>
> Jifl

	Sorry for this late reply. I made the changes that you suggested and now it 
works fine. Thanks a lot! 

	I also noticed something: the function "show_bootp", called in 
"init_all_network_interfaces" to display the network setup, sais that the 
harware MAC address is FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF, even if I changed it to 
08:88:12:34:56:78. I am sure that the change occured because I saw it on my 
computer with "arp". Maybe this should be modified too in the main resources 
to notice users that the MAC address has been set to the requested value.


	Regards,
		Cris



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