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The first thing you will need to do after detecting the BAR0 type and the existence of the EEPROM is to read the hardware MAC address of the NIC. The following method reads the hardware mac address based. If an EEPROM exists it will read it from the EEPROM else it will read it from address 0x5400 where it should be located in that case. It is very important to detect if an EEPROM exists or not prior to reading the MAC address.
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== Summary and Wrap Up ==
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I have presented in this Wiki the steps I followed to make an e1000 driver work with the two e1000e NICs Intel I217 and 82577LM. The wiki does not show how to utilize all the features of the NICs, but basically primitive setup and send/receive packets. Three important issues that I faced:
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