Bug 165984

Summary:	net-wireless/madwifi-ng does not allow mac address changes to wifix
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Marcus Gaskamp <linkoln_YeLL>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Steev Klimaszewski (RETIRED) <steev>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	mobile+disabled
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://madwifi.org/ticket/323
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Description Marcus Gaskamp 2007-02-08 19:51:27 UTC

This issue invloves the current 9.2.1 release of the madwifi-ng drivers, changing the mac address as described at: http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/ChangeMacAddress does not work. 
The solution is a patch on http://madwifi.org/ticket/323 or directly at http://madwifi.org/attachment/ticket/323/changemac2.diff. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
follow steps as described by http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/ChangeMacAddress

Actual Results:  
the mac address change fails

Expected Results:  
the mac address should change

The problem is than ifconfig hw not supporting ARPHRD_IEEE80211 device class. Ultimately the correct fix would be updating ifconfig userspace tools or simply remove line from the driver setting the master device in to ARPHRD_IEEE80211 class. 

Since, using the master device as ARPHRD_ETHER class device should not have any side effects, it would be ok to patch madwifi to set the device as an ether device instead and save the update to userspace tools.

Comment 1 Steev Klimaszewski (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-02-10 01:13:14 UTC

Not going to apply this - Upstream applied it, but then they backed it out again and said it wasn't a proper solution.