WLAN not working anymore after changing the MAC address
Quoted 4 lines · Maximilian Engelhardt
Hello,
According to http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211
I should report bugs to this list so here it is.
Not sure if we are dealing with a bug here.
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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()?
Gr. AvS
Quoted 7 lines · Arend van Spriel
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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:
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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 uponadd_interface()?
You should read the interface address in add_interface and basically never use perm_addr. change_interface can't change it as it's only called while an interface is up.
johannes
Quoted 9 lines · Johannes Berg
Quoted 7 lines · Arend van Spriel
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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:
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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 uponadd_interface()?You should read the interface address in
add_interfaceand basically
read ... well that came out wrong. I mean use vif->addr.
johannes
Quoted 16 lines · Johannes Berg
Quoted 15 lines · Johannes Berg
Quoted 12 lines · Arend van Spriel
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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 uponadd_interface()?
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You should read the interface address in
add_interfaceand basicallyread ... well that came out wrong. I mean use
vif->addr.
Thanks, Johannes
I got the idea of it.
Gr. AvS