[Arm-netbook] Mele a1000 and MAC address

[Nicolas Aguirre]

2012/8/9 lkcl luke <luke.leighton at gmail.com>

> 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.
>
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Should i add these informations here ?
http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/hacking_the_mele_a1000/#index1h1

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