Johannes Berg wrote:
that for zd1211 no device is created is probably counter-productive, that way userspace will never know that a wireless adapter is plugged in.
This is fixed for zd1211rw in my latest bunch of patches. But it certainly wouldn't surprise me if future hardware/drivers are not able to create an interface before loading firmware.
It implies that you have a way of reading the MAC address before uploading firmware. I only figured this out for zd1211 by reverse engineering the boot code to an extent.
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