I ran into a very frustrating yet interesting problem last night when I tried to place two of my PineA64 boards on the same ethernet switch in preparation for the GbE testing I plan to do tomorrow.

Both of my machines had a VERY persistently stubborn mac address ( which belongs to longsleep ):
36:c9:e3:f1:b8:05

I am wondering now how many folks having ethernet problems don't really have an ethernet problem, they just don't have unique mac addresses on their network from the Pine Boards ??  (arp cache nightmare)

Anyway, I tried repeatedly to change the mac addresses of both machines... and they would NOT change... neither of them... for almost four hours.

I changed the mac address in  /boot/uEnv.txt  , powered off and then did a cold boot.  (this on both machines)  but when the boot finished  both machines still had address  36:c9:e3:f1:b8:05

Believe it or not what I did to correct this was just be persistent... I started waiting longer between poweroff and cold boot...  eventually the new address finally 'took' on both machines.  When the address finally 'took' on both machines, both machines finally had the correct address in all four primary places:
/boot/uEnv.txt
/proc/cmdline
/sys/class/net/eth0/address
ifconfig

I really feel strongly that this needs to be changed. All Pine Boards need to have an automatic persistent unique mac address on the ethernet port;  like any other IP machine interface. Or, there needs to be a very consistent way to set the persistent mac address easily so that multiple Pine Boards on the same switch are guaranteed to have unique mac addys;  essential for Pine-Nut  clusters !

edit: PS. I suspect that the mac address of choice has something to do with this as well... it may be that I just happened upon a prefix that would work... but took some trial and guessing. But, its looking like the mac address can not be fully ransomized.

cause i want to use one 1t usb hdd,if direct connect to pine64's usb it's not working.
i must use a powered usb hub now
so is there any way to increase usb current from 500ma to higher,
thanks a  lot.

Finished making this Lego enclosure for my Pine 64 w/ LCD. Couldn't find anything similar online, hope you like!

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Over the last month I sent a number of 2 emails and 2 messages through kickstarter and facebook...no reply or order received. I'm backer # 6,365 . I hope someone responds. I'm getting worried...

Greetings, if you have had trouble with the GbE ethernet issue on the PineA64 , please take the poll (located in the ethernet sub-forum) and fill out the data requested in the first post.

thanks

PS, use either this thread or the 'sticky' thread in the sub-forum for discussing this issue;  please do not post discussion in the poll thread;  that thread is only for data gathering.  We are trying to identify a pattern, one way or the other.

Just updated to new OTA, now I have very small icons and hard to read browsers, more real estate but who cares. This on my 50 inch plazma TV.  What happened?

Hey guys

Got Ubuntu 16.04 up and running (thanks to everyone that worked on that ) but the keyboard layout is stuck in US whereas I have a Portuguese keyboard. /etc/default/keyboard returns the correct XKBLAYOUT="pt", and dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration seems OK, but the actual keyboard layout is still wrong.

For what it's worth, after keyboard-configuration runs, I get a couple of error messages saying "update-rc-d: start and stop actions are no longer supported", but I don't really see how that should affect the keyboard layout.

I've tried rebooting, doing this with and without sudo, with my standard user and as root, and nothing sticks

Help??

Thanks!

Previously ran one of the android images (I got mine in one of the first shipped batches) and put it away working.  Plugged into the same (verified good) power supply and no red LED, nothing.  Verified the power supply was good by powering a pi3 with it.  Switched power supplies to another 2.5amp power supply and still no LED.  I took the power switch out and tried it in both the power and reset location with no success.  Am I missing out on anything to try troubleshooting wise?