[Arm-netbook] Mele a1000 and MAC address

[lkcl luke]

On 8/9/12, Nicolas Aguirre <aguirre.nicolas at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2012/8/9 Alejandro Mery <amery at geeks.cl>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 9 August 2012 11:06, Nicolas Aguirre <aguirre.nicolas at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I already try this, it works but i need to kill connman to to this.
>> > wich
>> i
>> > don't want for different reasons.
>> > Angstrom uses connman as his network manager and it enumerates all
>> > interfaces and give them an unique id depending on the mac address (I
>> guess
>> > as this unique id is different each time i start, as for the mac
>> > address)
>> >
>> > I think that the better way to fix this is to pass the mac adress in
>> > the
>> > command line. I' don't know if the current network driver can parse
>> > this
>> > option. And i don't know where to put this command line :)
>>
>> beside the userspace way which is distro-specific you have the
>> allwinner way and the bootloader way. the allwinner way is to edit the
>> dynamic.MAC section of your script.bin and the bootloader way is to
>> pass a mac_addr= parameter when booting linux.
>>
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>
> Thanks for all you answers !
> I change the boot.scr file on my sd card and add the option
> 'mac_addr=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX' , it works pretty well:D

 great!  can you please document this on the wiki, server pages, so
that other people who go to the HOWTO will see this rather than have
to do a google search and possibly miss the above discussion?

 thanks nicholas.

 l.