Re: Mac Address Initialisation on Linux 2.4.27-vrs1

[Narinder Kumar <narinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi ,
       Try setting the hardware address from u-boot itself as shown below.
       Uboot> setenv ethaddr AB:CD:EF:GH:IJ:KL
and then save the environment variables with saveenv which will save 
this settings into a flash.
       Uboot> saveenv

Narinder

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Eric BENARD / Free wrote:

> Stage Iup - Fabrice & Frederic wrote:
>
> > i've just try your solution but seems not to work
> You didn't search enough ...
>
> > [root@EmbeddedLinux /root]$ifconfig eth0 hw ether 01:02:03:04:05:06
> > SIOCSIFHWADDR: Cannot assign requested address
> >
> > does it mean that it can't access to an hardware address?
> It only means the MAC address you provide is not valid ...
>
> Look into u-boot/tools/gen_eth_addr to generate a "valid" mac address.
>
> Eric
>
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