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From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Ehud Gavron <gavron@wetwork.net>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] ssb: Generic SPROM override for devices without SPROM
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:55:29 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B06ADE1.2000703@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B06ACCE.5040503@wetwork.net>

On 11/20/2009 08:50 AM, Ehud Gavron wrote:
> How does WL do it?  Broadcom *has* to generate a MAC address that is
> both unique and in its assigned range.  If we can do the same thing in
> B43 that would be ideal.

They are memory mapping a file in /etc/wlan. How this file is generated is not
known. I looked at the Acer One D250 driver for Windows, but got no clue there.

Larry

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-20 14:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-20 11:12 [PATCH RFC] ssb: Generic SPROM override for devices without SPROM Michael Buesch
2009-11-20 11:38 ` Florian Fainelli
2009-11-20 11:44   ` Michael Buesch
2009-11-20 14:05 ` Larry Finger
2009-11-20 14:11   ` Michael Buesch
2009-11-20 14:16     ` Florian Fainelli
2009-11-20 14:51     ` Larry Finger
2009-11-20 17:19     ` Larry Finger
2009-11-20 14:34   ` Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
2009-11-20 14:50   ` Ehud Gavron
2009-11-20 14:55     ` Larry Finger [this message]
2009-11-24  8:51 ` Oncaphillis
2009-11-24 10:52   ` Michael Buesch

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