On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 11:48:01AM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: > Regarding http://hostap.epitest.fi/bugz/show_bug.cgi?id=6
(which, btw, is resolved with WONTFIX) > On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 11:59 -0500, Ian Gulliver wrote: > > This card has internal flash and doesn't need firmware uploads on > > insert; I don't believe that's the issue. > > > > Jouni, what are your thoughts? So far, no one has convinced me that anything needs to be changed in the driver, so my latest comments in http://hostap.epitest.fi/bugz/show_bug.cgi?id=6 are still valid: This looks like a race condition between hotplug script and driver initialization. The script finds a new interface before the driver has had enough time to set dev->dev_addr. I was able to reproduce this for wifi0. However, it did not and should not happen for wlan0 at least with the current CVS development or stable branch. I tested both and wlan0 had MAC address when hotplug script was called. Based on the driver source code, it looks like wifi0 gets register_netdev() called with all zeroes dev->dev_addr, but wlan0 has dev_addr set when register_netdev() is called. However, this is not guaranteed for some cases, e.g., when the card does not have full firmware image in the flash and requires prism2_srec to be called. For these cases, the workaround would be to delay ifrename to happen only after the firmware has been successfully downloaded. -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
