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Re: Obtaining Ethernet MAC address

Subject: Re: Obtaining Ethernet MAC address
From: Dean Reece <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 18:02:46 -0700
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On May 5, 2005, at 5:45 PM, Carl Smith wrote:

Is it possible using the classes in the example link below to also
obtain the 'Name' of the ethernet card, i.e. as in the Systems/Network
panel as "Airport",
"Built-in Ethernet" and so on?

And in conjunction, is there some way, to distiguish between the cards
and if they are wireless or not?

Unfortunately, there isn't a good one-stop-shopping approach to present an interface selector (which is what it sounds like you want to do). The same is true for wired-vs-wireless. As for builtin-vs- addin, you can look for the "IOBuiltin" property in any instance of IONetworkInterface (The constant is defined in Kernel.framework/ Headers/IOKit/network/IONetworkInterface.h)

Our UI has some of the details hardwired, and has to collect the rest from a variety of APIs. Human-readable device names is something we hope to address in a future release, but for now, you'll probably have to use hard-coded logic to assign a name to each device you find. I do not believe we have a sample of that, but I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong ;-) - Dean

Thanks
Carl
-----Original Message----- From: darwin-drivers-bounces+csmith=email@hidden [mailto:darwin-drivers-bounces +csmith=email@hidden] On Behalf Of Carl Smith Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 8:35 PM To: Dean Reece Cc: email@hidden Subject: RE: Obtaining Ethernet MAC address
Wow that was fast. Great Thanks Dean,
"> Is the code for the Systems/Network panel open code?
Nope, sorry." :((
Carl
-----Original Message-----
From: Dean Reece [mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 8:34 PM
To: Carl Smith
Cc: Darwin Drivers Mailing List
Subject: Re: Obtaining Ethernet MAC address
On May 5, 2005, at 5:29 PM, Carl Smith wrote:
I wonder if someone could point me in the right direction as to be
able to add code to my userland or driver, if need be, apps to be
able to obtain the hardware MAC address of the inserted Ethernet
cards. Pretty much the same way it is done from Systems/Network
panel in the OS X?
Have a look at http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/
GetPrimaryMACAddress/listing1.html
It does exactly what you want.
Is the code for the Systems/Network panel open code?
Nope, sorry.
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