Setting the mac address in the bootargs will set the mac address permanently. The mac address keeps chnging on reboot as the designers forgot to wire an eeprom to the ethernet/usb controller
Sriram Rangan,
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What should I use to set mac address in bootarg?
I've tried mac=XXX , smsc95xx=XXX , smsc95xx.macaddr=XXX ,macaddr=XXX
but none of them worked.
I tried to patch
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu-maverick.git;a=commitdiff;h=10f38b455e75b85f72e98786e5518cf7b0324634;hp=f62e143182cc123fdfdf9bb88952a938af7d86e8
on my kernel
but it still can't work.