On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 9:09 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, not sure if I am posting in the right place (please let me know if I > wrong!) > > I have two (white)beaglebones, each of them have the wifi cape with the > TiWi-5 chips > (http://elinux.org/CircuitCo:BeagleBone_TiWi-5E_w/_EXT._Antenna) > > Getting them to connect to the network was no problem at all, it is after > that the the problems occurred. > Only one of them would show up on the network at a time. > They had the same hostname and were being assigned the same IP address by > the router, so after changing the host name and setting a static IP, I > notice that the MAC addresses for both boards are the same, and the router > is still only picking up one board at a time. > > Checking both boards ssh over USB shows that they believe they each have a > separate IP address and are connected. So I was wondering if anyone knew how > to change the MAC address for the beaglebone with wifi cape. (I have a > feeling it might involve EEPROM changes?) > > I have not been able to find any information in relation to changing the MAC > address with a wifi cape installed, yet alone much information for the wifi > cape itself. Any help, or links to resources would be appreciated. >
You can override the mac address, thereby adding your own, by just adding "hwaddress ether xyz" to /etc/network/interfaces cat /etc/network/interfaces | grep hwaddress hwaddress ether 00:19:b8:00:f0:88 Regards, -- Robert Nelson http://www.rcn-ee.com/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
