From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mms1.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.17]:2686 "EHLO mms1.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759119Ab2LIWfQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Dec 2012 17:35:16 -0500 Message-ID: <50C51219.2090900@broadcom.com> (sfid-20121209_233526_579140_E9892BF7) Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2012 23:35:05 +0100 From: "Arend van Spriel" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Johannes Berg" cc: "Maximilian Engelhardt" , 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> <50C4CFDA.5020900@broadcom.com> <1355077493.9878.0.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> ( sfid-20121209_192436_572441_F392233B) <1355077540.9878.1.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> In-Reply-To: <1355077540.9878.1.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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