[Gllug] Read mac address from dvb card

[julian]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 03:38:00PM +0100, John Hearns wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 16:05, Julian Somers wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > Does anyone know a way to read MAC addresses from PCI DVB cards?
> > 
> > Some of the cards Im using (like hauppauge wintv nova) supply their mac
> > address when I load the linux-dvb driver, but others (like technisat
> > skystar) don't. 
> I have version 1.1.0 of the dvb drivers,
> which is probably out of date.
> 
> The MAC is read in the routine ttpci-eeprom.c
> " Retrieve encoded MAC address from 24C16 serial 2-wire EEPROM,
>     decode it and store it in the associated adapter struct for
>     use by dvb_net.c"
> 
> 
> I'd guess that these other devices don't have this eeprom.
> Which doesn't really answer your question does it. Sorry!
>

I think you're right -- in the version of ttpci-eeprom.c in linux-dvb 1.1.1 they added

MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Decode dvb_net MAC address from EEPROM of PCI DVB cards "
                "made by Siemens, Technotrend, Hauppauge");

-- Technisat not supported. Thanks, now at least I know what to look for.

Julian


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