Re: WLAN not working anymore after changing the MAC address

["Arend van Spriel" <arend@broadcom.com>]

On 12/09/2012 07:25 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-12-09 at 19:24 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
>> 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
> 
> read ... well that came out wrong. I mean use vif->addr.

Thanks, Johannes

I got the idea of it.

Gr. AvS