From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 14 14:24:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA07582 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 14:24:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA07575 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 14:24:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id OAA08578 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 14:24:50 -0800 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id JAA09501; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 09:04:26 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199603142234.JAA09501@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Mathematica under FreeBSd To: creilly@maths.tcd.ie (Colman Reilly) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 09:04:25 +1030 (CST) Cc: ivan@nauplius.rsmas.miami.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <9603141539.aa12848@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> from "Colman Reilly" at Mar 14, 96 03:39:52 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Colman Reilly stands accused of saying: > > That was me. Unfortunately, I haven't had time to clean up and > generalise my changes to the linux emulator, and last time I asked for info ... it's quite possible that the huge rash of changes in -current cover some of what you've done, but if all you were to do was send what you have to Peter or Soren I'm quite sure they'd be happy to pick them over. > on the best way to find out the hardware address of an interface I got one > non-useful reply and zero useful replies. I haven't had time to go digging What is it you actually want? I presume when you say 'hardware address of an interface' you're looking for the ethernet MAC address? Look at /usr/src/usr.bin/netstat/if.c for a relatively simple example of how to do it from userland. > Colman -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[