MAC address assignment for wifi USB dongle

[joshnn]

Hi

I am comparing RevPi connect 2020-06-25 with the same model with 2019-03-14 and noticed the wifi USB dongle attached always get a new MAC address assignment on the newer firmware. This is going to be a problem for our remote management software that expects fixed MAC address assignment for the same wifi interface device. I don't see this problem with USB-Ethernet converter dongle that consistently returns the fixed MAC address.

The 2019-03-14 connect did not have such an issue with the same USB wifi dongle. I tried the same dongle with Windows that also returns the same MAC address consistently. How can we get the MAC address assignment fixed per device?

- Josh

[joshnn]

As a self follow up on the topic disabling NetworkManager did the job so wlan0 gets the fixed wifi MAC address.

https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/q ... s-behavior

[dirk]

Hi Josh,
thank you for your positive reply.