I've actually been having this bug myself for a while - i think since maverick meerkat's 2.6.35 kernel?? (9/10 times i use my wireless connection, but i have to use wired at university) and i've finally had enough of this issue :(
(You can check any relevant hardware info you need from other bugs i've posted, but in short i'm on ubuntu 11.10 64bit on an Asus K51AE.) So it's definitely the atl1e driver and everytime i shutdown/suspend/restart, the MAC address changes (this is a particular problem because the university MAC filters us, so i would have to reregister everytime were it not for a few commands i picked up to get around the problem: sudo ifconfig eth0 down sudo ifconfig eth0 hw ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx sudo ifconfig eth0 up (I change the address to one i've registered previously ((However, this only lasts until i shutdown/restart/suspend/until i remove and reinsert the ethernet cable.)) Sometimes, if i restart, it not only changes the MAC address but increments the name for the new connection, i.e. After a few restarts, i can end up being on connection eth8 - when this is the only wired connection i ever use. I've used dozens of kernels and many versions of ubuntu and lubuntu since this first happened (~xmas 2010?) Possibly a regression somewhere? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Eee Coders, which is subscribed to Easy Peasy. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/271744 Title: MAC Address change after suspend (atl1e) Status in Easy Peasy: New Status in Ubuntu EeePC-optimized Kernel: Triaged Status in Ubuntu EeePC Kernel 2.6.24 series: Confirmed Bug description: Occasionally after suspend, the MAC address for the wired network card on a Eee 901/1000/1000h changes to something other than the correct MAC address. I've had this behavior confirmed by 2 other independent sources on IRC (#eeepc on FreeNode). On a network with DHCP, this results in a new IP address being allocated after a suspend. It also results in the interface name changing, and a bunch of bogus entries being left in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules storing the varied MAC addresses that seem to be given to the adapter after this suspend bug. Note: This does not happen always. I've had it happen irregularly. When trying to directly force it to happen, it took at least 5 suspends in the space of 3 minutes to get it to happen. Applies to the 2.6.24-21-eeepc kernel and I've had an independent confirmation that the same bug exists in 2.6.24-22-eeepc kernel in the array.org hardy-proposed repository. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-eee/+bug/271744/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-eee-coders Post to : ubuntu-eee-coders@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-eee-coders More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
