Disable (?) NM random mac for shared XO wifi - USB0 / Chrome/ Pi Zero

[James Cameron]

That's great.  I've a Raspberry Pi Zero and XO-1 that I can put
together.  Might even be room inside or etch some of the back
plastic.

On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 08:22:43PM -0400, Carrol Riddle wrote:
> All:
> With the possibilities narrowed by James Cameron, found something that works repeatedly on my test XO-1.  Must test again on a fresh system to find minimum configuration.  Changes made to correct board id's, udev rules, connection method prepared from scratch, and unmanaged mac entry in /etc/NetworkManager.conf  .
> 
> Will post configuration later to close thread (if I can replicate it :)  ) 
> 
> Thanks all for help.
> Carrol Riddle
> 
> > > Now, setting MACAddressPolicy to none has no effect, which
> > > suggests the random address is coming from the kernel.
> > > 
> > > My guess is that the reason why your udev rpi script fails is that it
> > > is triggered on more than one udev event, or races with other things
> > > for access to the device.  Add more logging and debugging to it.
> > > 
> > > Reference:
> > > 
> > > https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.link.html

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