Hi all, I recently noticed that changing the MAC address of an atheros WLAN adapter fails with all ath5k and newer madwifi drivers. To reproduce, just say something like ip link set <yourdevice> address 11:22:33:44:55:66 before attaching to your access point. This worked fine with old madwifi drivers. (Alas, I cannot narrow down "old" much finer, must have been ~2 years) With a current ath5k driver, the attachment to the AP fails, and if I look into the NIC registers using athtool, I can see the new MAC address has not consistently been stored there. With a current madwifi driver, the attachment to the AP works, and the NIC registers do contain the newly set address. But any further communication fails, as packets sent from the local machine to the AP contain the wrong (old, original, before "ip link set ...") MAC source address. Is this a known problem? Does anybody have a hint on where to look for a resolution? Thanks in advance, Peter Niemayer -- 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
