Can't keep a constant MAC address for eth0

[Jason Crain]

On Thu, January 22, 2009 12:46 pm, harshavardhan wrote:
> same problem here.
> I am using ubuntu 8.10 in HP pavilion dv6705au .Can any one help me
> please
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Do you get the same lines in kern.log about an invalid mac address?  I may
be completely wrong, but in the original post it looked like the hardware
mac was a broadcast mac address, which is not good.  You could take the
advice in kern.log and complain to the hardware manufacturer.