From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Cc: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Errors when firmware is missing
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:58:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1184108292.3738.28.camel@johannes.berg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <468FCC4A.2010102@gentoo.org>
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On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 13:24 -0400, Daniel Drake wrote:
> It implies that you have a way of reading the MAC address before
> uploading firmware. I only figured this out for zd1211 by reverse
> engineering the boot code to an extent.
Hm. Good point. I sure hope no such devices ever show up ;) Or you just
create a device with a fixed (but random locally assigned) MAC address.
Or even better we globally define a locally assigned address for "no
idea yet" :)
johannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-11 9:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-07 16:27 Errors when firmware is missing Jon Smirl
2007-07-07 16:41 ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-07 17:24 ` Daniel Drake
2007-07-10 22:58 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2007-07-07 21:34 ` Dan Williams
2007-07-10 22:56 ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-07 18:08 ` Larry Finger
2007-07-07 18:37 ` Michael Buesch
2007-07-07 21:33 ` Dan Williams
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