On 03/26/2010 06:18 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 26 March 2010, Larry Finger wrote: >> Some recent BCM43XX devices lack an on-board SPROM. The pertinent data >>from the SPROM could be included in the kernel; however, this presents >> a problem in the generation of a unique, reproducible MAC address. The >> solution is to initialize the address to a known, workable value. Thus, >> the device will work without any further code. For an address that is >> preserved across reloads or reboots, a set of udev routines has been >> prepared that detect the special address and assign a random value that >> is preserved in a second udev rule file. The random address should be >> unique except for the case where a given box has more than one of these >> cards. This case is handles by adding the DEVPATH to the recognition >> rules. >> >> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <[email protected]> > > This I assume does not do anything for the idiot vendor who ships thousands > of bt dongles all with 11:11:11:11:11:11 set as the mac address? I got > stung with 2 of those things.
Sending a duplicated address is bad enough, but making it be a broadcast address is particularly bad. On the other hand, the udev technique used here could be employed to do a unique MAC address assignment for these devices. Do you still have them? Larry _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
