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Re: WLAN not working anymore after changing the MAC address

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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

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