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> Hi, all.
>
> Can anyone point me towards material which explains how one might read the
> hardware addresses of any Ethernet cards installed in a Linux x86 system?
Do you mean io addr or ethernet hw addr?
There is NO way(I know of anyway) to to find the io addr with ISA w/o
subjecting yourself to a possible hang.
> I'm not talking about autoprobing. I'm hoping that a safer, more generic
> method can be employed once the appropriate driver/module has been loaded.
Once the driver has been loaded it's just a matter of calling the
right system call. If you're using C try
<linux_src>/include/linux/etherdevice.h
I'm sure the ifconfig source has the correct call.
>
> (Looking over the source in /usr/src/linux/drivers/net wasn't too
> illuminating, I'm afraid.)
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Dave Michelson
>
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