Re: [gentoo-user] Netvanta router will not read Gentoo MAC address

[Mick]

On Saturday 17 November 2007, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> On Saturday 17 November 2007, Mick wrote:

> > What can I change to get this going?
>
> Did you try the "-I" option to dhcpcd? (man dhcpcd)
> Set it to your mac address and add the option in the "dhcpcd_eth0 = ..."
> line in /etc/conf.d/net.
>
> If nothing else works, you can try using dhclient or pump (or changing
> dhcp server!).

Thanks guys, unless I am doing something wrong I cannot get the -I option to 
work meaningfully.  How exactly am I supposed to specify the MAC address?

I tried XX:XX:XX:XX:XX, I tried without ":" and also with lower case 
characters.  The router picks up a different string but not the intended MAC 
address.

I finally tried vram (whatever this might mean?!) and it now works.

Thanks for your help.  Any one know what vram actually does?
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Regards,
Mick