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In-Reply-To: <199610232037.NAA10355@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Oct 23, 96 01:37:08 pm
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Terry Lambert stands accused of saying:
> > 
> > Do we want an ioctl to get the hardware address?  If not, any
> > suggestions on a _tidy_ way to get it?
> 
> Check the list archives.  The Mathematica "correct method" included
> patches to implement the interface without the kernel grubbing.  I
> am suprised that the patches were not integrated.

You mean this one?  I'm not surprised :

] Insert into linux_ioctl, in linux_ioctl.c, inside the first switch.
] 
]   case 0x8927:
]         hwaddr[0]=0x00;
]         hwaddr[1]=0x00;
]         hwaddr[2]=0xc0;
]         hwaddr[3]=0x27;
]         hwaddr[4]=0xe5;
]         hwaddr[5]=0x66;
]         return copyout((caddr_t)hwaddr, (caddr_t)args->arg,6);
] 

No other messages on the subject appear to contain any code at all, but
I'll pester Andrew Gallatin and see if he finished the issue.

> 					Terry Lambert

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