[Freedombox-discuss] Trouble getting freedom box running, u-boot_2012.04.01-2_armel.deb, freedombox-unstable_2012.1021/ dreamplug 1001

Nick M. Daly nick.m.daly at gmail.com
Fri Nov 16 03:56:57 UTC 2012


Johan Henselmans <johan at netsense.nl> writes:

> I had one remaining problem: Apparently the ethernet addresses are derived from the uboot environment, which apparently are flushed 
> when I updated to the latest uboot firmware, ifconfig gave:
>
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00  
>
> by setting ethaddr and eth1addr in the uboot environment, that got solved. 
> Example:
>
> Marvell>> setenv ethaddr f0:ad:4e:01:xx:xx
> Marvell>> setenv eth1addr f0:ad:4e:01:xx:xx
> Marvell>> saveenv
> Marvell>> reset
>
> Just sent to the mailinglist so anybody else wont have to struggle. 

You can also set it in /etc/networking/interfaces or via the command
line.  The latter's useful if you want to give it a new MAC address
every time it boots.
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