On Fri, Mar 23 2007, at 00:06 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On jeu, 2007-03-22 at 07:29 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > No, the driver doesn't implement it. Should be trivial to add though. > > MHmh, I use a powerbook g4, my network card is a sungem too and I can > do: > > sudo ip l set eth0 address 00:11:24:xx:xx:xx > > and it works. I'm using a 2.6.20 kernel but I remember it working since > a long time so I'm wondering what doesn't the driver implement. > > Regards,
Same here on a alubook G4: works like a charm to change the Ethernet MAC address as I like, as it seems. Provided the interface is down. Even on this old 2.6.18: uname -a Linux debby1-6 2.6.18-rc4-060811-dirty #1 Fri Aug 11 00:16:22 CEST 2006 ppc GNU/Linux lspci -v | grep -i sun 0002:24:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Apple Computer Inc. Intrepid2 GMAC (Sun GEM) # macchanger --mac=xx:[new MAC]:xx eth0 Current MAC: xx:[old MAC]:xx (unknown) Faked MAC: xx:[new MAC]:xx (unknown) HTH Best Regards Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer: /ICQ: 286585973/ + + + /AIM: crashinglinux/ http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer I made slight changes on Key ID: E3037113. Please refresh it. http://keyserver.mine.nu/pks/lookup?search=0xE3037113&fingerprint=on -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
