Re: changing mac address of Sun GEM
On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 03:53 +0800, Ruben Vandeginste wrote:
> At Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:29:34 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >
> > No, the driver doesn't implement it. Should be trivial to add though.
>
> Ok. I gave this a try by looking at the initialisation code for the
> card and at the code for setting the mac address in other drivers. I
> have something that seems to work, but that is most likely not 'good',
> since I basically just write the values in the correct registers and
> don't care about anything else. In any case, after changing it with
> "macchanger", "ifconfig" shows the new mac address. "macchanger" did
> however complain that it could not change the mac address.
>
> Comments?
Thanks !
the patch is whitespace damaged though...
Appart from that, what's the output of strace macchanger ? Might give a
clue why it complains...
I'll give it a try myself as soon as I find some time and will submit
the patch upstream with fixups if needed.
Ben.
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