[U-Boot] [U-Boot-Users] How to pass MAC address to linux kernel?

[Jayakumar A]

Hi,

I was going through the mail chain of "passing  MAC address to Linux kernel"( http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg09312.html)  and found you could be of great help in helping our issue.


We wish to set the ipaddress on the ARM-9 board retrieving from a particular file and start the network services:
We are using FreeScaleArm9 board and to statically set the system we have flashed the kernel(linux-2.6.31) on NAND Flash with DHCP off.
As per ltib settings it says: to have static ip-settings, either set the ip-address while configuring LTIB or change in the file /etc/rc.d/rc.conf.

We made changes in both settings and noted that ip-address could be dynamically changed(each time upon boot) as updated in rc.conf but when
We gave the following command ifconfig -a : it shows ethaddr as 00:00:00:00:00:00 and could not ping the other system on the network.

Though we do not have any problem with NFS boot, the driver configuring/working (of FEC0)is of no doubt to us.

If you could please share some information regarding the static -ip settings and starting network serives it should be of great help.
Thanks in advance.

Thanks & Regards,

Jayakumar A.
Software Engineer, Product Engineering Services (PES)

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