[Click] Madwifi+Click Problems

[John Bicket]

Hi Nels,

This is because the madwifi.stripped driver report ath0 with a device
type of ARPHRD_IEEE80211, and ifconfig doesn't know how to print mac
addresses for that.  (I sent a patch to the net-tools guy, but I think
he just ignored me).

Everything else should work normally, and the address is just the first 
6 bytes of the hwaddr in ifconfig.  (ie 00-0D-88-8A-78-E3).
I'm not sure the stripped driver supports changing mac addresses.

Let me know if this answers your question. I'm also at sigcomm now, so
look me up if you're here.


--john


Nels Anderson [Nels.Anderson at colorado.edu] wrote:
>Aloha,
>
>Hello again, I'm still experiencing some problems with wifi-enable click and the
>stripped madwifi driver for the atheros cardset.  After building the latest
>driver and loading all the modules, ath0 comes up with the bizarre ethernet
>address of:
>
>ath0   Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-0D-88-8A-78-E3-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
>
>Also when I try and change the MAC address of the card with 'ifconfig ath0 hw
>ether $mac' (with a proper address for $mac), it also fails with this message:
>
>SIOCSIFHWADDR: Invalid argument
>
>Anyone have any idea what might be causing these problems?
>
>This doesn't happen when I build and load the non-click sourceforge madwifi
>drivers.  I actually had both of these things working normally under that
>driver.  Now, I'm not sure if it's the stripped driver itself (I don't think it
>is) or if it's some combination of kernel options and the stripped driver. 
>Something the stripped madwifi uses but the sourceforge one does not.  Does
>anyone have a 2.4.26 kernel config that they've been able to get the click-wifi
>stuff working with?  I'm just using a stock kernel.org 2.4.26 kernel.
>
>If anyone has any ideas, ran across similiar problems or anything else,
>assistance would be much appreciated.  Thanks,
>
>-Nels
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