On 29 June 2011 20:53, AleixOF <alei...@tinet.cat> wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:59:09 +0200
> Joachim Ott <jo.o...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 23 June 2011 11:58, Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindf...@iki.fi>
>> wrote:
>> > Aleix Orti<alei...@tinet.cat> writes:
>> >> but the result is ever the same:
>> >> "SIOCSIFHWADDR: Operation not supported"
>> >>
>> >> What can I do?
>> >
>> > I get the same error with
>> >
>> > linux-image-2.6.34-openmoko-gta02 20101212.git049b71de-2
>> >
>> > in Debian. My guess is that the firmware does not let you change
>> > the MAC address.
>>
>> This feature is missing in the ar6000 driver. I thought it was there
>> already when I found WMI_SET_MAC_ADDRESS_CMDID in the source, but that
>> one is used for wake-on-wireless. It wouldn't be that hard to
>> implement, 2 new ioctls (set mac and reset mac) and another 6 bytes to
>> save the original mac address.
>
> thanks Timo and Joachim
> I find the ar6000 sorce in the openmoko repo. I've been looking it and
> I haven't understand. I want to find the variable where mac is
> stored. If I find it I could hard code it. It's a very nasty way but
> only for starting...
See the file drivers/ar6000/wmi/wmi_doc.h:
Name
READY
Synopsis
Indicates that the AR6000 device is prepared to accept commands.
It is sent once after
power on or reset. It also indicates the MAC address of the device.
Event ID
0x1001
Event Parameters
UINT8 macAddr[6]
Device MAC address
UINT8 phyCapability
A WMI_PHY_CAPABILITY value. Indicates the
capabilities of the device wireless module's radio
You could try to change the ready function in wmi.c to use a mac
address of your own.
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