Ethernet over USB and UDEV

[David Fokkema]

On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 20:02 +0300, Mikko Rauhala wrote:
> su, 2009-05-03 kello 19:52 +0200, Esben Stien kirjoitti:
> > Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors at iki.fi> writes:
> > > My usb0 surely has a mac address. What makes you think your device
> > > doesn't?
> > 
> > Sure, it gets a MAC address, but it doesn't provide one itself. It
> > actually gets a random MAC address assigned to it from the kernel
> > driver.
> 
> Somebody who cares enough might code support for setting the MAC and
> make it per default the same as the BT mac (cached into /etc), or
> perhaps flip the locally administered bit to 1 if you feel like it.
> 
> Doesn't seem like a huge effort.

Before we do that: we're not talking about _this_, are we?

http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/devel/2009-April/005384.html

Regards,

David


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