On Nov 27, 2007 4:57 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 16:54 +0200, Tomas Winkler wrote: > > In general it is possible to change the mac address and there was a > > patch for it if I remember correctly. It had some issues so I nacked > > it, it slipped from my attention after that. I'll try to dig the > > history. > > Thanks. I didn't feel confident enough with the driver to make such a > change since I have no idea where it should/would be uploaded to the > hardware and whether maybe the ucode gets it from the eeprom too etc. > > If you can get a patch that makes this work I'm all for it since the > mac80211 hack isn't too nice anyway. > I found it, there was a patch by Ian Schram <ischram@xxxxxxxxxx> '[PATCH] allow changing mac_addr by userspace' It should work I nacked it just because I wanted to remove a filed he was using, it never happened so I think we can apply it for 24 and then I get back to rework it. I'll resend it rebased to current everything. > johannes > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
