no permanent MAC address? need it to give Pine64 a reserved IP.

[faddah]

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Just to be clear, you're appending the mac_addr=... to the end of the "console=" line, not as a new line, e.g.,

Code:

console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8 no_console_suspend mac_addr=00:06:dc:8B:41:a5

Just putting this definition in on a separate line sets an environment variable in the bootloader called mac_addr, but doesn't actually get that passed to the kernel as an argument.

that did it! thank you very much — you were correct, i was putting that mac_addr=... assignment on a speaarate line. i put it on the same line as the console=... args, and it works! i've now rebooted several times and have the same MAC address, like i need. thank you, again.

should i perhaps write this up as note in the forums? here or in the linux forum?

best,

—  faddah
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