I'm using Fedora 26 on a Raspberry Pi 3. Is it normal that at each reboot (or shutdown and poweron), the MAC address of the Ethernet card is each time a different one?
There is a place where to specify the MAC address of the Ethernet card?
Thanks A.
On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 3:58 PM, Alessio Ciregia alciregi@gmail.com wrote:
I'm using Fedora 26 on a Raspberry Pi 3. Is it normal that at each reboot (or shutdown and poweron), the MAC address of the Ethernet card is each time a different one?
There is a place where to specify the MAC address of the Ethernet card?
What versions of kernel and u-boot do you have?
On Fri, 2017-05-26 at 16:58 +0200, Alessio Ciregia wrote:
I'm using Fedora 26 on a Raspberry Pi 3. Is it normal that at each reboot (or shutdown and poweron), the MAC address of the Ethernet card is each time a different one?
No. Should be derived from the serial number.
There used to be a uboot bug though where this didn't work correctly, in that case the kernel generates a random mac for the device.
uboot v2017.05 should work correctly.
cheers, Gerd
On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 9:14 AM, Gerd Hoffmann kraxel@redhat.com wrote:
On Fri, 2017-05-26 at 16:58 +0200, Alessio Ciregia wrote:
I'm using Fedora 26 on a Raspberry Pi 3. Is it normal that at each reboot (or shutdown and poweron), the MAC address of the Ethernet card is each time a different one?
No. Should be derived from the serial number.
There used to be a uboot bug though where this didn't work correctly, in that case the kernel generates a random mac for the device.
uboot v2017.05 should work correctly.
There was a issue in the kernel that was fixed in 10b6c0c2e2bb8cd1be682f8d36ef597e3419cb88
We pulled this is some time ago as well.
I am having the same problem on a RPI3 w/ Fedora 26 beta. Just beginning to explore the issue.
P.S. I am using U-Boot 2017.05-rc2 and kernel 4.11.5-300 The U-Boot came in the .xz file and the kernel cme in the first dnf update.
Thanks!
On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 8:46 PM, pvwrght@bellsouth.net wrote:
P.S. I am using U-Boot 2017.05-rc2 and kernel 4.11.5-300 The U-Boot came in the .xz file and the kernel cme in the first dnf update.
So there was fixes in both u-boot and the kernel to deal with this problem so please update it to the latest version. You can do this easily by running the rpi-firmware-update command which will update u-boot and the RPi firmware to the latest version.
That fixed it! I had run rpi-firmware-update on Fedora 25, but forgot to run it after installing Fedora 26 beta. Perhaps I should have run dnf update user-brain -y :-) Thanks!
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