HOW to find MAC address of your DE2 board?

Altera_Forum · ‎09-21-2006

Hi all,

I just got my hand on a new DE2 board and I would like to use the Ethernet funciton of it. I had trouble finding the MAC address of my DE2 board. (i need to register the mac address in my university network before I can use it). Does anyone know how to find it?

Thanks in advance.

Tony

Altera_Forum · ‎09-21-2006

Hi,

if you are using the LWIP stack (as I suppose) you have to check the function "get_mac_addr": it should read the byte of the MAC address from flash...

bye

Altera_Forum · ‎09-22-2006

Soin, thank you for your reply, but is there any other way I can find it out??

Because, the get_mac_addr seems to be only able to recognize the Altera Development board only but not DE2 board.

I used the DE2_control panel to read the content in the CFI flash but I read out an empty file. I thought I could find out the MAC address by looking at the content of the flash memory.

Thanks

Tony