On Mon, 2013-10-28 at 14:49 +0100, Pali Rohár wrote: > On Monday 28 October 2013 14:45:05 Johannes Berg wrote: > > On Sat, 2013-10-26 at 22:34 +0200, Pali Rohár wrote: > > > Driver wl1251 generating mac address randomly at startup and > > > there is no way to set permanent mac address via > > > SET_IEEE80211_PERM_ADDR. This patch export sysfs file which > > > can set permanent mac address by userspace helper program. > > > Patch is needed for devices which do not store mac address > > > in internal wl1251 eeprom. > > > > This doesn't really seem like a good idea since you can also > > just use 'ip' or whatever to set the MAC address. > > > > johannes > > AFAIK you cannot set permanent address (show by ethtool -P wlan0) > via ip/ifconfig. You probably can't, but that address also doesn't matter at all and isn't really used anywhere. 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
