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[Adam McDaniel <adam@xxxxxxxxx>]

FWIW2: My EeePC 900 has officially died, I picked up a free upgrade to
the 901 which has this chipset.

It should be easy enough for me to replicate your problem again and
validate it with 2.6.27 and 2.6.28.

I know that upstream ubuntu has issued an upgrade to the atl1e module in
2.6.27.11-ish, but i don't know if this issue was fixed.

I'll validate if this is still issue and post my results this week.

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MAC Address change after suspend (atl1e)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/271744
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Status in Easy Peasy: New
Status in Ubuntu EeePC-optimized Kernel: Triaged
Status in Ubuntu EeePC Kernel Series: 2.6.24: Confirmed

Bug description:
Occasionally after suspend, the MAC address for the wired network card on a Eee 901/1000/1000h changes to something other than the correct MAC address. I've had this behavior confirmed by 2 other independent sources on IRC (#eeepc on FreeNode).

On a network with DHCP, this results in a new IP address being allocated after a suspend. It also results in the interface name changing, and a bunch of bogus entries being left in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules storing the varied MAC addresses that seem to be given to the adapter after this suspend bug.

Note: This does not happen always. I've had it happen irregularly. When trying to directly force it to happen, it took at least 5 suspends in the space of 3 minutes to get it to happen.

Applies to the 2.6.24-21-eeepc kernel and I've had an independent confirmation that the same bug exists in 2.6.24-22-eeepc kernel in the array.org hardy-proposed repository.