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February 28th, 2005 16:00
Broadcom MAC address indentifcation utility
Is there an equivalent of the Intel idadapt.exe utility for the Broadcom based NICs in the D600 and GX280 series?
Is there any other way to determine MAC address of a Broadcom based nic without loading any network driver?
Specifically, the utility needs to run in the DOS 6.22 environment.
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speedstep
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March 18th, 2005 23:00
Toms RTBT probably works.
http://www.toms.net/rb/
Its not MSDOS. Its linux on a 1.44 floppy.
There is also a version of Linux that boots from CDROM
http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/knoppix/
StPatrick
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March 21st, 2005 15:00
Thanks for the info.
I did manage to discover a method that does work in DOS 6.22 in the mean time.
Download the B57UDIAG utility from Broadcoms site, and then run as follows:
B57UDIAG.exe -t ABCDE - l macfile.log (case sensitive)
This basically runs the utility excluding all tests (ABCDE test ranges) but dumps details of the nic (including MAC address) into the logfile "macfile.log".
I then parse out the actual MAC address from the log file using AWK to find it on the line and output it in a format exactly the same as Intel's IDADAPT.exe does. That way, I use the same batch script from that point onwards.