[Arm-netbook] Mele a1000 and MAC address

[Roman Mamedov]

On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 10:49:07 +0200
Nicolas Aguirre <aguirre.nicolas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm finally using my mele a1000 as an home automation server. It works
> pretty well, with an uptime of 8 days now :)
> I'm using a specific angstrom/openembedded image which i built for it, and
> the cnxsoftware scripts to create a bootable sdcard with 512 MB of RAM
> dedicated for the server. I'm using also the nightly build for the kernel
> and uboot (in date of august 1st).
> 
> With this configuration i'm facing a problem, the Ethernet MAC Address
> changes and seems to be a random value when the system restart. I would
> like to fix this address. Do you know how to do ?

Use

   ifconfig eth0 hw ether your:custom:mac:address:here

Ensure this is executed at boot, before the DHCP client (if you use DHCP), in
Debian-based distros you can just add a "pre-up" line
into /etc/network/interfaces.


-- 
With respect,
Roman

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with code he could not see.
So he began to tinker,
and set the software free."
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