h>> * If you've an A20 board, your ethernet may have a random >> mac-address, >> so if you want to configure a static ip-address and want it to >> stick >> across reboots, go to the ethernet-tab, select the mac-address >> field >> and delete its contents, so that the static ip address you're >> configuring does not get tied to the random mac-address. > > > I work in IEEE 802. This is NASTY! They did not want to get enough address > space from the RAC? I may have to get one just to figure out what is going > on (and will talk to my colleagues in .1 at the Jan meeting. This is > probably more common than I would have thought).
It's something that is very common in a lot of the ARM based dev boards and not just limited to the Allwinner devices. Of the dozen or so dev boards I have I'm aware that at least 3-4 of them have no set MAC address. Basically because to store it they need to add a eeprom to store the MAC to the BOM and they're aiming for bottom of the price point for these devices basically it adds extra cost they don't want. Peter _______________________________________________ arm mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
