Actually, what I found out is that if something is wrong with the configuration, NetworkManager doesn't seem to work correctly and give a random MAC address. Now I am trying to get Bluetooth to work, looks like I can't even see the device? What is the latest version of Centos? and is there still work being done on a 64 bit version? thanks, Ron On 04/03/2018 01:37 AM, Fabian Arrotin wrote: > On 02/04/18 04:19, cjvijf at gmail.com wrote: >> Hello, >> >> >> I don't know if this is a dev issue/problem, but I bought 2 RPI 3 about >> a year ago, and installed centos on one (the other one I haven't even >> used yet). >> >> It seems the Mac address changes every reboot? (into something 'random', >> because the first 2 numbers indicate the manufacturer, right? >> >> Is this a known issue? is it an OS or hardware issue? >> >> >> thanks, >> >> >> Ron > Something I discovered when we were looking at WiFi support for the RPI3 > : there is one file "controlling" the needed firmware for it : > /usr/lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43430-sdio.txt > > If you look at that file, we decided to comment the macaddress line, to > avoid all the provisioned RPI3 boards to suddenly uses the same static > mac address everywhere. > So the file (as present in the rpi image we provided) is looking like > this : > #macaddr=00:90:4c:c5:12:38 > > That can probably explain what you're seeing ? > > > > _______________________________________________ > Arm-dev mailing list > Arm-dev at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/arm-dev/attachments/20180410/ca55fb62/attachment-0006.html>