hi,

i need my Pine64 A64+ 2 GB RAM board to have a permanent MAC address, yet it seems to get a new, random one every time i restart.

allow me to explain —

i need the permanent MAC address so my home router (Xfinity/Comcast Cable Modem) can give it a permanent IP in the DHCP list. the reason i need that, is so i can do port forwarding and be able to ssh into the board, if i leave it on (currently with Arch Linux, i also have other MicoSD cards that have other OS's, like Ubuntu). if the MAC address changes each time, the router can't find it and just gives it a random IP number, instead of my desired permanent IP that i am looking for, and, of course, i can never log-in to the board.

however, every time i restart the board, it has a new MAC address (???). at least for the ethernet, as that is the only real MAC address for it i see. i've confirmed this both with the router software looking at the board's MAC address each time i've re-started it, as well as with ifconfig -a and dmesg. in fact, dmesg has this line in it —

I received my pine 64 2G version today but was fairly disappointed: it didn't boot (tried image burning many times) and there was no output signals from the HDMI port. I simply want to return it. Is there anyone knows how to do that?

Thanks!

Q

Made my case today. Went to hardware store and got some materials,  did not take too long.
See attached pic.

Hi, I have not received my PineA64 kit yet, but I expect to shortly. I ordered a full backer kit with Touch screen, case, etc, however if I have a shipping concern, who can I contact to either move up or delay my shipment while I am out of town on vacation in May??

Hey all,
Using the image here: http://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/Pine_A6....2C_Pine64

Works fine and all, but I don't need the GUI. How can I uninstall/remove the GUI OR just set it to boot directly to console?

Tried every single os, different micro sd cards, cdmi cables, tv's, power supplies and still have a board that power up, has no display, no boot.

I even left it overnight on numerous occasions, left it for a few hours on others.  I am fully at the end of my tether with a board that simply will not boot!

the current card is a 32GB card plugged into an LG tv using a power supply that works well with a raspberry pi.  I am beginning to get annoyed but am holding back as being an engineer means having patient with new tech but I must say, even the pi has never given me this much grief!

I am on the verge of simply buying a pi 3 and sticking to that as I know it works.  If I said I was truly disappointed, it would the the understatement of the year so far!

I am a friend of pragmatic solutions, so here is a very simple one to handle current and future fixes required on Pine64 without having to provide packaging.

So there is now a script which can be run on any Pine64 (Linux) any time, multiple times. The script will fix whatever needs fixing. Thus the script is called "pine64_fix_whatever.sh". The idea is that whenever some issue comes up, a solution can be added to this script, run it again and be good.

Fixes (in the order as they have been added):

- Pulseaudio stuttering by disable timer-based audio scheduling


The script is part of my platform-scripts at https://github.com/longsleep/build-pine6...rm-scripts.

You can simply run it like this on all Linux images (as root):

Hello,
I just got my 4 Pine64's in the mail. I plugged them all in and got everything working using the latest Ubuntu 16.04 off the wiki. I noticed odd network issues. Eventually realizing that all 4 have the same exact MAC address.

Would this be an Ubuntu issue or is this a hardware issue? Is this a known issue?

What can I do about it? Can I change the MAC addresses?

When I try to download any of the 'Android Image Release 20160303' images from here, the site just hangs. Are other people experiencing that? Does anyone know of any other mirrors/torrents for these files (preferably the DD image). Thanks!

Is it possible to run Ubuntu 14.04 on the Pine64? I mostly just want 14.04 because of ROS Indigo.  I am currently trying 15.10 with ROS Jade but most of my other projects are in Indigo.