[Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Linksys and Dlink wireless access points]]

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 11:50:03AM -0800, Javier Cardona wrote:
> Lilian, Marcelo
> 
> >> From: "Lilian Walter" <lwalter42 at gmail.com>
> >> So, how do I set the MAC address?
> 
> This works for me:
> 
> ifconfig eth0 down hw ether XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
> ifconfig eth0 up
> 
> Note that this change is not persistent:  the MAC address stored in
> EEPROM is not modified.
> 
> On 2/1/07, Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo at kvack.org> wrote:
> >(...)
> >1) Setting MAC address with CMD_802_11_MAC_ADDRESS
> >
> >I was unable to write to the MAC register using the CMD_MAC_REG_ACCESS
> >command (...)
> 
> This command is used to write directly to the registers of the MAC
> controller, which has nothing to do with the MAC address.

Oh, I stand corrected.

Thanks Javier