more permanent than macchanger?

[funkmankey]

so: I have an asrock k7s41 board, and the onboard sis900 lately decided that its MAC was ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff -- a problem reported fairly recently with certain 2.4.x linux, but I am using 2.6. ok whatever. so I thought updating its bios to the latest could not hurt. well it did, heh. first bad bios flash ever, in 10+ years of flashing bios.

lucky me, I have a second machine with the exact same board, so was able to do a bios pull, hotswap, and flash.

problem is, now both boards think they have the same MAC. easy enough to get around using macchanger in /etc/conf.d/net, but it would be nice if I could permanently save the altered MAC back to the board.

ideas? thanks!!
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[pijalu]

take a look at http://www.ocworkbench.com/2004/asrock/faq/g1.htm, they are explaining details on how "change" the mac of the board... the link for the utility seems incorrect, but the last post of http://forums.techguy.org/showthread.php?threadid=168206&1d988f137c52b0768c751694c887eb4f point to a working one (and subject of the thread is quite similar)

This seems to be able to change the mac in a "permanent" way....
Btw, i didn't test it - just found these with Google

Hope this will help

[funkmankey]

tried it, and it totally worked. thanks for finding that!!!

in case anyone else ever needs that util, I did find a link to it on ocworkbench after all:
http://www.ocworkbench.com/2004/asrock/faq/eeAMD-SIS.zip
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