[linux-dvb] read MAC addr from EEPROM on TT/WinTV cards

["Michael Glaum" <mglaum@kvh.com>]

The MAC address of the TT-Budget/WinTV-Nova-CI cards is in a coded
format on a 24c16 serial EEPROM that hangs off the card's i2c bus.

The DVB and dvb-kernel CVS repos as of 6/16/03 should now read this
data, decode it, and store it in a new field "proposed_mac" in the
adapter struct so that when a network interface is attached, this
MAC address is assigned automatically. Indeed, when
apps/dvbnet/net_start.pl runs all network interfaces should have
the correct MAC addr, although this can be changed with ifconfig.

Next time somebody is running net_start.pl perhaps they could check
that their MAC address was read correctly? Not entirely sure which
cards this should work on.

Robert Schlabbach
Michael Glaum
Holger Waechtler


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