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Re: Reading an Ethernet card's hardware address?

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On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Dave Michelson wrote:

> 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?
>
> 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.
>
> (Looking over the source in /usr/src/linux/drivers/net wasn't too
> illuminating, I'm afraid.)
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Dave Michelson
>

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