[Skimmertalk] Why won't one SD card work on another RP-16

Bob Wilson, N6TV n6tv at arrl.net
Mon Jul 1 17:52:11 EDT 2019


No error messages seen.  Are you saying this RP doesn't have the MAC
address indicated by the prompt?  When you log in, the prompt may change.
Try that.

Then use the ip address command to display the actual MAC addresses.

73,
Bob, N6TV

On Mon, Jul 1, 2019, 2:40 PM N4ZR <n4zr at comcast.net> wrote:

> So I thought to myself, I have one SD card with Alpine Linux, autostart
> for the receiver and everything working fine on my first RP-16 (my
> suggested short form for the 16-bit RP).  Why not make a few copies for the
> rest of the identical units, I thought?
>
> Only one problem - while my first SD card continues to work on the
> original RP-16, it will not work on the others. When I access it with the
> console via PuTTY, it appears that the MAC address of the RP-16 has somehow
> become embedded in the SD card.
>
> This is what I see (attached).
>
>
> Am I reading this correctly?  What to do?
>
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>
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