[ltp] WG511 PCMCIA with 2 Mac addresses (Mandriva)

[Mauro Maroni]

I have a Netgear WG511 but never saw that behaviour...The only issue I have is 
that sometimes the card disconnects from the access point, but I only have to 
run '/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart' (I am using Gentoo) in order to reconnect 
it. I will try to see if that issue is also related to a changing MAC 
address.

Regards,
Mauro

On Friday 31 March 2006 21:28, Richard Neill wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I wonder whether I could consult the collective wisdom about this. My
> Netgear WG511 card works perfectly with the prism54 driver, once the
> binary firmware has been loaded.
>
> However, the MAC address (as reported by ifconfig, or udevinfo) changes
> between 2 different values depending on status:
>
> 1)Without the firmware installed, or before the network interface has
> been brought up (for the first time since boot or plugging in the card):
>   	00:30:b4:00:00:00
>
> 2)Once the firmware has been loaded, and the interface has been  brought
> up at least once:
>       00:09:5b:c1:3a:b1
>
> The problem is that restarting the network no longer recognises the
> card, since the MAC address has now changed:
>    "interface 'wlan' not foundDevice wlan has different MAC address
>    than expected, ignoring."
>
>
>
> All the config tools (iftab, ifcfg-wlan) need to refer to the first
> (un-initialised) MAC. But once initialised, they don't recognise the
> card anymore.
>
> The simple solution is to cardctl eject, and physically unplug/replug
> the card each time I restart the network. But that's ugly!  I think I
> need to bind one interface name to 2 different MAC addresses.
>
> Does anyone know the correct solution, or can point me to an appropriate
> resource?
>
> Thanks very much,
>
> Richard
>
>
>
>
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