[arm-allstar] BBB_Allstar_v1.1

[Doug Crompton]

John,

When you first setup your BBB on the first logon you would have the opportunity to run a script to set the network, PW, and host name. To set the host name independently you would do the following -
hostnamectl set-hostname myhostname


replacing myhostname with the name you would like. I suggest your node number.

That name should show up on the list of active devices on your router.

The mac address is displayed by doing an  'ifconfig' at the BBB  Linux prompt. It is shown with the heading 'ether'.

[root at node40961 asterisk]# ifconfig
eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.0.121  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.0.255
        inet6 fe80::1eba:8cff:fea8:7e8a  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether 1c:ba:8c:a8:7e:8a  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 11469652  bytes 1420127271 (1.3 GiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 738  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 2384415  bytes 195019414 (185.9 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
        device interrupt 40


73 Doug
WA3DSP
http://www.crompton.com/hamradio


Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 07:54:45 -0500
Subject: Re: BBB_Allstar_v1.1
From: wb5nfc at gmail.com
To: doug at crompton.com

Thanks for the information, Doug. I'll be working on this again today to try and make some sense of it all. One other question to help me keep track of the BBB as I chase it around my network: Other connected devices show up on my router with an appropriate device name (Epson Printer, John's MacBook, etc) - the BBB does not. I have to check the MAC address. Where/how is the BBB device name configured? 

John 		 	   		  
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