Dear Jayakumar A, Please restrict your line length to some 70 characters or so. Thanks.
In message <3d423a5438408c4ea43da95d38f9989b7c9b6ed...@exchindmail.patni.com> you wrote: > > I was going through the mail chain of "passing MAC address to Linux kernel > "( http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg09312. > html) and found you could be of great help in helping our issue. This information is 4 years old and obsolete. > We wish to set the ipaddress on the ARM-9 board retrieving from a particula > r file and start the network services: If you are talk about "retrieve from a file" you probably mean under Linux? That should be trivial to implement. In U-Boot, we use the environment to store MAC addresses. > We are using FreeScaleArm9 board and to statically set the system we have f > lashed the kernel(linux-2.6.31) on NAND Flash with DHCP off. > As per ltib settings it says: to have static ip-settings, either set the ip > -address while configuring LTIB or change in the file /etc/rc.d/rc.conf. This is all Linux stuff and off topic here. Also, LTIB is Freesale's code, so please ask Freescale support about it. > If you could please share some information regarding the static -ip setting > s and starting network serives it should be of great help. It is totally unclear to me what you are actually asking 0 it seems you confuse MAC and IP addresses at a pretty much fundamental level. In any case, you appear to refer to Linux configuration, which is off topic here. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot