setting ethernet PCMCIA address 

Forum: PCMCIA Network Adapter Issues
Date: 2000, May 01
From: J Toy gee308

Hi, I need help setting my ethernet Linksys etherfast PCMCIA card's hardware address automatically when it boots. I know how to set my harwade address with ifconfig eth0 hw ether FF:FFF:FF:FFF:FF:FF, but when I reboot, it resets. How can I make this automatic? Thanks Jason gee308@mediaone.net

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Don't know why you need it, but here it is Re: setting ethernet PCMCIA address (J Toy) Date: 2000, May 01 From: David Hinds <dhinds@pcmcia.sourceforge.org>

If you have your network settings in /etc/pcmcia/network.opts, then you can just add: start_fn () { ifconfig $1 hw ether ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff } to your settings in that file. If you are using Red Hat's netconf tool to configure your network, then I don't think they provide any interface for doing this. -- Dave

Setting the hardware address from network.opts Re: setting ethernet PCMCIA address (J Toy) Date: 2000, May 05 From: Andreas Hotz ahotz

Setting the MAC address of any card to another value is no problem. I posted a way to do this from your network.opts easily by changing David's network script slightly. This way you can change any MAC address by setting a variable in any of the "case" clauses in config.opts (for example based on the slot you put your PCMCIA card in. See item 66, subitem 2 in this discussion forum for the description.

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