On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 13:22 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > 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:
Yes, it works when the if is down when you don't have the set_mac_address callback afaik. Having it allows changing when the interface is up which is useful with nowadays userland thingies that tend to keep interfaces up to poll their link (argh ! sungem is smart enough to continue managing the link when the interface is down, but not all drivers are) Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
