> [struct ne2000dev, especially on the enet_maddr entry
>  in /usr/src/sys/dev/pcmcia/if_ne_pcmcia.c]
>
> On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 01:09:33AM +0100, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
>
> > Apparently it is not known how to get the Ethernet address in
> > a general way out of the PCMCIA CIS information of ne2000
> > pcmcia cards, so it was chosen to have an table of card name
> > vs. address offset in configuration space.
>
> Does that mean: "there is no way to extract the address" or
> rather "there probably is one, but we do not know"?

It probably means that the location of the Ethernet address is
not fixed among the various ne2000 clones, so we need to have an
entry with the correct offset for each particular type of ne2000
clone card for it to work correctly.


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