From: Gary Thomas <gthomas@redhat.com>
To: (Andrew Lunn) <andrew.lunn@ascom.ch>
Cc: ecos-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com,
(Carl van Schaik) <carl@leg.uct.ac.za>
Subject: Re: [ECOS] CS8900A]
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 04:37:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <XFMail.20000831053734.gthomas@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200008311126.NAA00534@biferten.ma.tech.ascom.ch>
This chip does not "know" its ESA (Etherenet Station Address) by default.
It has to be programmed in.
If you're building/designing the board yourself, you'll need to get one
from the appropriate authorities. Or, if the board will never see the
"real" internet, just make one up.
On 31-Aug-2000 Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> thanks
>
> Start it up so it makes a DHCP request. Use tcpdump to watch for the
> packet. There is a parameter you can pass to make it print the link
> level headers, ie the mac address. It will use the ip address 0.0.0.0
> which should make it easier to spot.
>
> Another option could be to look at the DHCP server. If it gets a
> request from a machine it does not know the mac address of it may
> print an error message with the MAC address.
>
> Andrew
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-08-31 4:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-08-31 4:21 [ECOS] CS8900A Carl van Schaik
2000-08-31 4:26 ` [ECOS] CS8900A] Andrew Lunn
2000-08-31 4:37 ` Gary Thomas [this message]
2000-08-31 4:40 ` [ECOS] CS8900A Gary Thomas
2000-08-31 8:54 ` Shaun Jackman
2000-08-31 9:14 ` Gary Thomas
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