#173: when changing mac of dwl-g520, interface no longer receives packets
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Reporter: BlackestOfBlack | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone: version 1.0.0 - first stable
release
Component: madwifi: driver | Version: trunk
Resolution: | Keywords: mac address change trunk
Patch_attached: 0 |
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Comment (by entity):
After updating to svn r2156, I am able to change the mac address of wifi0
with the macchanger program, and afterwards recreate the ath0
interface.[[br]]Doing "ifconfig wifi0 hw ether 00:01:02:03:04:05" does not
work and gives "SIOCSIFHWADDR: Invalid argument".[[br]]macchanger on wifi0
works but, for some reason doing:[[br]]
{{{
wlanconfig ath0 destroy
macchanger -r wifi0
wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode sta
}}}
...Returns the string "ath0", but looking in ifconfig -a shows that it
actually created ath1 instead of ath0. Everything works other than that
though, I am able to associate fine using wpasupplicant and get an ip over
dhcp afterwards using ath1 instead of ath0.[[br]]
{{{
wpa_supplicant -Bw -qq -Dmadwifi -iath1 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
dhclient3 ath1
}}}
[[br]]
Another strange thing is when using macchanger to manually set a
predefined (not random) mac for wifi0, it gives an error (spelling
included):[[br]]
{{{
macchanger -m=00:01:02:03:04:05 wifi0
Current MAC: 44:44:44:44:44:44 (unknown)
ERROR: Incorrect format: MAC lenght is 17. =00:01:02:03:04:05(18)
}}}
Otherwise working, but strange behavior, and am unable to set mac to a
non-random value.
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Ticket URL: <http://madwifi.org/ticket/173>
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