Octal point in wrong place - Re: Fedora-Xfce-armhfp-21-20140725-sda.raw.xz - Cubieboard 2

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 07/25/2014 02:23 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> OK. Some more information.  I should have read the known issues that 
> video was not supported yet and not waste time when I forgot my 
> console serial usb adapter.
>
> So I just built of 0725 and did a firstboot.  It hung at:
>
> Fedora release 21 (Twenty One)
> Kernel 3.16.0-0.rc6.git1.1.fc21.armv7hl on an armv7l (ttyS0)
>
> [   90.945170] Ebtables v2.0 registered
> [  103.427868] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
> [  104.033676] cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated:
> [  104.053602] cfg80211:   (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), 
> (N/A, 2000 mBm), (N/A)
> [  104.078213] cfg80211:   (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 160000 KHz), 
> (N/A, 2000 mBm), (N/A)
> [  104.094960] cfg80211:   (5490000 KHz - 5730000 KHz @ 160000 KHz), 
> (N/A, 2000 mBm), (0 s)
> [  104.103304] cfg80211:   (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 80000 KHz), 
> (N/A, 2000 mBm), (N/A)
> [  106.258769] eth0: device MAC address 6a:69:4a:ec:9a:81
> [  107.145200] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
>
> there was no prompting for root password, time zone or login user. So 
> I built another Sd card with --norootpass
>
> This one proceeded to the login prompt.  Again no prompting for time 
> zone or user.
>
> I logged in as root and observered no network addresses.  My F20 remix 
> has no problem getting both my IPv4 and v6 addresses, so I dug 
> deeper.  The calculated MAC address is:
>
> 36:85:4d:dc:35:a3

that is a valid local scope MAC address.  I had my octal point in the 
wrong place.  :)

>
> OOPS!  first octet with value of '3' is BAD.  That is setting the 
> multicast bit per my understanding of local scope MAC addresses (more 
> on this subject another time, but I work in IEEE 802 and have learned 
> a lot of MAC addresses, and my reading is that this first octet must 
> be xx10).
>
> I did a screen capture in screen, so can provide any displayed info.
>
> I am building yet another SD card.  Hopefully this one will create an 
> allowable MAC address.
>
>