Comment 9 for bug 271744

I've actually been having this bug myself for a while - i think since maverick meerkat's 2.6.35 kernel?? (9/10 times i use my wireless connection, but i have to use wired at university) and i've finally had enough of this issue :(

(You can check any relevant hardware info you need from other bugs i've posted, but in short i'm on ubuntu 11.10 64bit on an Asus K51AE.)

So it's definitely the atl1e driver and everytime i shutdown/suspend/restart, the MAC address changes (this is a particular problem because the university MAC filters us, so i would have to reregister everytime were it not for a few commands i picked up to get around the problem:

sudo ifconfig eth0 down
sudo ifconfig eth0 hw ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
sudo ifconfig eth0 up

(I change the address to one i've registered previously ((However, this only lasts until i shutdown/restart/suspend/until i remove and reinsert the ethernet cable.))

Sometimes, if i restart, it not only changes the MAC address but increments the name for the new connection, i.e. After a few restarts, i can end up being on connection eth8 - when this is the only wired connection i ever use.

I've used dozens of kernels and many versions of ubuntu and lubuntu since this first happened (~xmas 2010?) Possibly a regression somewhere?