[linux-dvb] Unique identifier

[Ralph Metzler <rjkm@convergence.de>]

Patrick Cipiere writes:
 > I am looking for a unique identifier on the various DVB cards that are
 > supported by the driver.
 > I wish to use the layer 2 network capabilities of the driver without
 > having to set a IEEE 48 bits MAC adress from the user level, so I need
 > something in the eeprom (or somewhere else) that could be fill at
 > least the device 24 bits.

No, the driver does not support this since services like EON now use a
different kind of identification scheme where the IP is stored in the MAC.
You could of course read the EEPROM through the normal Linux I2C
interfaces and set the MAC accordingly.


Ralph


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