From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mms3.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.19]:4857 "EHLO mms3.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752952Ab2LIRwk (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Dec 2012 12:52:40 -0500 Message-ID: <50C4CFDA.5020900@broadcom.com> (sfid-20121209_185244_377248_45866410) Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2012 18:52:26 +0100 From: "Arend van Spriel" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Maximilian Engelhardt" , "Johannes Berg" cc: brcm80211-dev-list@broadcom.com, "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: WLAN not working anymore after changing the MAC address References: <201212090940.38269.maxi@daemonizer.de> In-Reply-To: <201212090940.38269.maxi@daemonizer.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 12/09/2012 09:40 AM, Maximilian Engelhardt wrote: > Hello, > > According to http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211 > I should report bugs to this list so here it is. Not sure if we are dealing with a bug here. > 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()? Gr. AvS