Problems changing mac adress

[Joachim Ott]

On 23 June 2011 11:58, Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors at iki.fi> wrote:
> Aleix Orti<aleixof at 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.