[Arm-netbook] Mele a1000 and MAC address

[Alejandro Mery]

On 9 August 2012 12:53, lkcl luke <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

http://linux-sunxi.org/WEMAC#MAC