Allan-
I've downloaded almost all the opensource from Darwin, but when I do a
search for SCNetworkInterfaceGetLocalizedDisplayName I find nothing. Is
this function not in the download source? Is it just in some library
when one installs 10.4?
Thanks
Carl
-----Original Message-----
From: Allan Nathanson [mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 10:17 AM
To: Carl Smith
Cc: Darwin Drivers Mailing List
Subject: Re: Obtaining Ethernet MAC address
We introduced some new APIs (in Tiger) which should provide most of
the information you are seeking. In <SystemConfiguration/
SCNetworkConfiguration.h> you will find :
SCNetworkInterfaceCopyAll()
returns an array of network capable devices
SCNetworkInterfaceGetHardwareAddressString()
returns the hardware (MAC) address for an interface
SCNetworkInterfaceGetLocalizedDisplayName()
returns the display name (e.g. "Built-in Ethernet") for an
interface
- Allan
On May 5, 2005, at 9:02 PM, Dean Reece wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> - Dean
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