No one around to tackle this? In any case it should reject the MAC adress change as unsupported Thanks, Karsten Am Donnerstag, 3. Dezember 2009 22:38:45 schrieb Andrew Morton: > (switched to email. Please respond via emailed reply-to-all, not via the > bugzilla web interface). > > On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 15:41:10 GMT > > bugzilla-daemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14711 > > > > Summary: usbnet ax88172 mac address change broken > > Product: Drivers > > Version: 2.5 > > Kernel Version: 2.6.31rc8 > > Platform: All > > OS/Version: Linux > > Tree: Mainline > > Status: NEW > > Severity: normal > > Priority: P1 > > Component: Network > > AssignedTo: drivers_network@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > ReportedBy: remur@xxxxxxx > > Regression: No > > > > > > When changing the MAC address on a NETGEAR FA120 (because an old one is > > registered with my provider) the replies to the traffic don't reach the > > system anymore, the NIC is dropping them, putting the NIC into promiscous > > mode will show they are properly replied to. > > > > Searching around I found this patch from the openBSD folks > > http://www.mail-archive.com/misc@xxxxxxxxxxx/msg76418.html > > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/usb/if_axe.c.diff?r1=1. > >91;r2=1.92 > > > > Looks like it is not working with the ax88172, but only with newer > > models. Still an error message would be nice when setting another > > physical address > > It would be nice if some asix-competent person could take a look at porting > that openbsd patch across, see if it fixes Karsten's hardware. > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
