On Sun, 2012-12-09 at 18:52 +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote: > > After changing the MAC address of my wireless network interface it > > doesn't work anymore. I would very much like to change the MAC > > address to avoid being traceable by it. Steps how this can be > > reproduced are shown below. Here is first some information about my > > Hardware and test setup: > > > > How is this supposed to be distributed to the driver? I have been > looking in the mac80211 interface. The only callback that I can think > is is the change_interface() callback although the documentation does > state this is only for changing the interface type. Or is it to be > done upon add_interface()? You should read the interface address in add_interface and basically never use perm_addr. change_interface can't change it as it's only called while an interface is up. 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