[Arm-dev] wireless mac address

Wed Apr 11 02:52:43 UTC 2018
cjvijf at gmail.com <cjvijf at gmail.com>

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 ?
>
>
>
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