Hi, I am using Linux kernel with ModemManager and libqmi in userspace to drive EM7565. Once the data connection is up, I see the MAC address, or the HWaddr of the wwan0 interface is all zero, for example: -bash-5.0# ifconfig wwan0 wwan0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-…

[image] qingtao.cao.au: How is the MAC address for the wwan0 interface is determined? when and by whom? and is it possible to make the MAC address more “meaningful” or at least non all-zero? It is not all zero. That is just a problem with ifconfig. The address length is zero . Drivers preten…

How is the MAC address determined for EM7565 once data connection is established?

IoT Modules MC/EM Series

jyijyi November 3, 2020, 7:56am 3

Are you using GobiNet driver?
You can check if this driver assigned the MAC address:

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How is the MAC address determined for EM7565 once data connection is established?

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