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On May 9, 2012 3:42 PM, "Alejandro Mery" <<a href="mailto:amery@geeks.cl">amery@geeks.cl</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Dawid Wrobel <<a href="mailto:me@dawidwrobel.com">me@dawidwrobel.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > David Given <dg <at> <a href="http://cowlark.com">cowlark.com</a>> writes:<br>
> ><br>
> >> - ethernet works but the MAC address isn't initialised properly, so<br>
> >> you'll have to take the lid off, read the MAC address off the label on<br>
> >> the ethernet socket, and do something like this in your<br>
> > It is by design - if you remove the SD card and boot into stock bootloader menu,<br>
> > showenv will show that the MAC address is passed to kernel via command line<br>
> > "mac_addr" option. Adding it to SD card's uboot command line does the trick for<br>
> > custom kernel.<br>
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> but how does their bootloader get this info?<br>
it gets the mac address at the factory with a pc tool. Every mac address is bought.<br>
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