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Re: changing mac address of Sun GEM



On Fri, Mar 23 2007, at 00:06 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On jeu, 2007-03-22 at 07:29 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > No, the driver doesn't implement it. Should be trivial to add though.
> 
> MHmh, I use a powerbook g4, my network card is a sungem too and I can
> do:
> 
> sudo ip l set eth0 address 00:11:24:xx:xx:xx
> 
> and it works. I'm using a 2.6.20 kernel but I remember it working since
> a long time so I'm wondering what doesn't the driver implement.
> 
> Regards,


Same here on a alubook G4: works like a charm to change the Ethernet
MAC address as I like, as it seems. Provided the interface is
down. Even on this old 2.6.18:

 uname -a
Linux debby1-6 2.6.18-rc4-060811-dirty #1 Fri Aug 11 00:16:22 CEST 
2006 ppc GNU/Linux

lspci -v | grep -i sun 
0002:24:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Apple Computer Inc. Intrepid2 GMAC (Sun GEM)

# macchanger --mac=xx:[new MAC]:xx eth0
Current MAC: xx:[old MAC]:xx (unknown)
Faked MAC:   xx:[new MAC]:xx (unknown)

HTH

Best Regards
Wolfgang

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