case "${ARGUMENT}" in
live-netdev=*)
NETDEV="${ARGUMENT#live-netdev=}"
+
+ # Check if NETDEV is a valid MAC address
+ if echo "$NETDEV" | grep -Eq '^[0-9A-Fa-f]{2}[:-]([0-9A-Fa-f]{2}[:-]){4}[0-9A-Fa-f]{2}$'
+ then
+ echo "NETDEV is a valid MAC address."
+
+ # Retrieve the device name associated with the MAC address
+ DEVICE_NAME=$(ip -o link | awk -v mac="$NETDEV" '$0 ~ mac{print substr($2, 1, length($2)-1)}')
+ if [ -n "$DEVICE_NAME" ]
+ then
+ echo "Device name for MAC address $NETDEV is $DEVICE_NAME."
+ NETDEV="$DEVICE_NAME"
+ fi
+ else
+ echo "NETDEV is not a valid MAC address. Assuming it is a device name."
+ fi
+
echo "DEVICE=$NETDEV" >> /conf/param.conf
- echo "Found live-netdev parameter, forcing to to use network device $NETDEV."
- Wait_for_carrier $NETDEV
+ echo "Found live-netdev parameter, forcing it to use network device $NETDEV."
+ Wait_for_carrier "$NETDEV"
return
;;
esac
echo "Connected $interface found"
# inform initrd's init script :
found_eth_dev="$found_eth_dev $interface"
+ found_eth_dev="$(echo $found_eth_dev | sed -e "s/^[[:space:]]*//g")"
;;
esac
done