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    MAC Address changes every Reboot

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      entozoon
      last edited by entozoon

      The IP of my retropie WIFI connection was changing every reboot and I realised that its MAC address is literally changing every time.
      I've tried various solutions from forums such as adding an

      smsc95xx.macaddr=00:e0:4a:0a:3c:e0
      

      command to config.txt and cmdline.txt but to no avail.

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      • mituM
        mitu Global Moderator
        last edited by

        Please add more info about your setup, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

        Are you using Ubuntu on your system ?

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          entozoon @mitu
          last edited by

          @mitu said in MAC Address changes every Reboot:

          My apologies, and no. It's a Pi Zero 1.3 using the Raspberry Pi 0/1 image.
          Could be something to do with linux and the dongle used rather than retroPie but I'm kinda at a loss because it doesn't happen with Raspbian

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          • mituM
            mitu Global Moderator @entozoon
            last edited by

            The RetroPie image is based on Raspbian Lite, so, for all intents and purposes, it is Raspbian. What kind of dongle are you using ?

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              entozoon @mitu
              last edited by

              @mitu Ah, I see. It's an Edimax ew-7811un USB dongle

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                entozoon
                last edited by

                On reflection it seems much more likely to be a raspbian issue, so I'm gonna go ahead and delete the topic

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                • BuZzB
                  BuZz administrators @entozoon
                  last edited by BuZz

                  @entozoon please don't. You can edit your first post and make it clear it's a Raspbian issue preferably leaving original text in place for reference) (please don't blank your post as it will mess the thread up). You can't delete the entire topic anyway.

                  To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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