DietPi is using an out-of-date u-boot that doesn't set a fixed MAC address on Quartz64A

Troubleshooting
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Well, it’s working too, thanks ! I will now migrate everything and be able to get rid of my old setup. :green_heart:

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Great, many thanks for testing! I’ll merge and move those packages and images to stable downloads then.

Ah, btw, is the MAC address the same of different than 1a:80:0a:2c:9f:50 in your case?

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Different : 76:43:6C:C4:D9:C9

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I’m experiencing another issue though : regardless of the desktop environment I’m using, clicks/hovers are delayed and the cursor is stuttering.

Thanks

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did you checked CPU load while running desktop mode?

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Looks fine, and this wasn’t happening before the update.

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Hmm, so Linux 6.6 probably has a regression :thinking:. In the meantime I uploaded new packages based on Linux 6.6.4. You can apply them like the 6.6.3 ones before.

I will build packages based on latest Linux 6.5 (but still upstream U-Boot), if those do not behave better, to verify whether its really a 6.6 regression.

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I’m looking forward to it.

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I’m sorry I missed that part. Where are those ?

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Just rerun the code from above. It always contains the latest Linux builds, currently Linux 6.6.6:

cd /tmp
curl -fO 'https://dietpi.com/downloads/binaries/testing/firmware-quartz64a.deb'
dpkg -i firmware-quartz64a.deb
rm firmware-quartz64a.deb
reboot
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Alright, it seems I’m going to execute this many times so I put it in a script.

And, I’m still experiencing the issue after executing it just now.

Thanks

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Hi @MichaIng,
I’ve recently updated my DietPi installation on my OrangePi 5 and I’m currently experiencing the same issue of the MAC that changes at every reboot.

G_DIETPI_VERSION_CORE=8
G_DIETPI_VERSION_SUB=25
G_DIETPI_VERSION_RC=1
G_GITBRANCH='master'
G_GITOWNER='MichaIng'

Linux DietPi 5.10.160-legacy-rk35xx #1 SMP Tue Nov 28 02:45:16 UTC 2023 aarch64 GNU/Linux

dietpi@DietPi:~$  echo $G_HW_MODEL_NAME
Orange Pi 5 (aarch64)
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We do not do the kernel builds for Orange Pi 5. However, I remember this was reported already: OrangePi 5 ethernet interface getting a random MAC address assigned on every reboot with most recent DietPi shipped uBoot loader · Issue #6663 · MichaIng/DietPi · GitHub

Does it help to add ethaddr=MACADDR to /boot/dietpiEnv.txt, adding a valid MAC address, like the one currently (randomly) applied?

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Any news on my issue ? Thanks

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I jump in the other thread.

Just to answer here to your question: no, adding the MAC address to dietpiEnv.txt does not solve the issue. rk_gmac-dwmac keeps generating a random MAC.

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this should help as a workaround on the OPi5 Orange Pi 5 | MAC address changes on reboot · Issue #6663 · MichaIng/DietPi · GitHub

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