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authorLeah Woods <info@minifree.org>2016-05-22 01:05:41 (EDT)
committer Leah Woods <info@minifree.org>2016-05-22 01:05:41 (EDT)
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docs g41: mention custom MAC address is needed
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@@ -346,6 +346,9 @@ IDE on the board is untested, but it might be possible to use a SATA HDD using a
Read this post on the libreboot mailing list for more information: @uref{https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/libreboot-dev/2015-12/msg00011.html,https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/libreboot-dev/2015-12/msg00011.html}
+NOTE: by default, a working MAC address is not always set automatically. You need to set a MAC address manually in your GNU/Linux distribution.
+On debian-based systems (e.g. Trisquel), you can add this to your /etc/network/interfaces file for your NIC: hwaddress ether macaddressgoeshere
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@strong{NOTE: This board is unsupported in libreboot 20150518. To use it in libreboot, for now, you must build for it from source using the libreboot git repository.}
Flashing instructions can be found at @ref{How to update/install,flashrom}.