Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: wireless-tools
The preup script is "broken":
eth0 being my wired network interface, snippet from
/etc/network/interfaces:
iface eth0 inet dhcp
hwaddress ether 00:0e:35:ca:c8:3e
Now, with the unpatched wireless preup, I get:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ifup --verbose eth0
Configuring interface eth0=eth0 (inet)
run-parts --verbose /etc/network/if-pre-up.d
run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless-tools
run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wpasupplicant
ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:0e:35:ca:c8:3e
SIOCSIFHWADDR: Device or resource busy - you may need to down the interface
Failed to bring up eth0.
Adding the following to the bottom of the script fixes my problem:
if [ -x "$IFCONFIG" ]; then
$IFCONFIG "$IFACE" down
fi
Only caveat, I'm not 100% sure if iwconfig settings survive an ifconfig
down, but they should if I remember right. (I seem to remember that the
fastest way to get a clean iwconfig state was reloading the ipw2100
module.)
Andreas
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Apr 19 11:54:02 2008
Dependencies:
libgcc1 1:4.2.3-2ubuntu7
libiw29 29-1ubuntu2
gcc-4.2-base 4.2.3-2ubuntu7
libc6 2.7-10ubuntu3
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: wireless-tools 29-1ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SourcePackage: wireless-tools
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686
** Affects: wireless-tools (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug
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/etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless-tools leaves the interface up, which breaks
hwaddr setting
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219520
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