On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 2:57 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> I just updated two Beaglebone Green Wireless modules with the latest
> operating system (Debian 8.4 2016-05-13 4GB SD LXQT) and I find that the MAC
> addresses of the wlan0 interfaces of both boards show as DE:AD:BE:EF:00:00.
> Is there a way to automatically set them to the numbers printed on the
> boards? I'm pretty sure they didn't show as DE:AD:BE:EF:00:00 before I did
> the upgrade because I was able to setup an ssh connection to each board
> independently. Now, since they both have the same MAC address, they both get
> the same IP address from my router and get confused. What is the best way to
> sort this out?

Yes,

But it requires 2 software packages not installed in that version.

1: bb-wl18xx-firmware, which you can install via : ( sudo apt-get
update ; sudo apt-get install bb-wl18xx-firmware )

2: a tool from TI, that i haven't packaged yet...

https://github.com/rcn-ee/ti-18xx-ti-utils/commits/R8.6_SP1-bbgw

Or use this new image:

http://rcn-ee.net/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-08-01/lxqt-4gb/bone-debian-8.5-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-08-01-4gb.img.xz

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
https://rcn-ee.com/

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