* Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koski...@iki.fi> [150106 13:59]: > Hi, > > On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 11:54:55AM -0800, Tony Lindgren wrote: > > Run u-boot/tools/gen_eth_addr to generate a random local mac, > > then swap the bytes for it for big endian. Enter them into a > > file with hexedit in big endian order. Then just do: > > > > # cat mac | ethtool -E eth0 offset 0x40 length 6 > > > > Then ethtool -e eth0 should show you the configuration. > > Does any other eeprom data need to be set? It seems to be all 0xff. > I generated a mac from /dev/random and it shows up fine in those offsets > and with ifconfig, but I still can't get a link up: > > ifconfig: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address
Chances are you did not swap the mac address bits around and it's trying to use a reserved mac address now? The mac needs to be the other way around.. Regards, Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
