Beagleboard-XM chooses a new IP address everytime the interface is brought up

[Tobin Davis]

The smsc95xx driver used on the Beagleboard-XM currently generates a new random MAC address every time the interface is brought up. This makes it impossible to override using the standard `ifconfig hw ether` approach or through /etc/network/interface.

As a result, the board gets a new IP address on each boot from DHCP, and confuses dynamic DNS setups linked to DHCP.

There is an upstreamed patch (merged in 2.6.37-rc1) at http://marc.info/?l=linux-omap&m=128744421925804&w=2 which enables the user to set their MAC address using the standard tools. Please consider pulling this into the stable maverick omap3 kernel.

(Bug #673504 was also filed for the omap4 kernel under linux-ti-omap4 and bug #673509 was filed for the main linux-omap kernel, this bug is for the linaro kernel - solution is the same for all).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: linux-image-2.6.35-1008-linaro-omap 2.6.35-1008.15
ProcVersionSignature: User Name 2.6.35-1008.15-linaro-omap 2.6.35.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-1008-linaro-omap armv7l
Architecture: armel
Date: Wed Dec 8 08:27:03 2010
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: linux-linaro

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Chase Qi (chase-qi)]

Migrated to bugzilla: https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558