Package: linux-source-2.6.30
Version: 2.6.30-1
Severity: normal
After upgrading my kernel from 2.6.29 to 2.6.30 I am unable to set the
MAC address of my Prism 2.5 pci wireless NIC using the orinoco-pci
driver. My interfaces file has a section like:
iface eth1-foo inet dhcp
wireless_key s:foobar
wireless_essid barfoo
wireless_mode managed
hwaddress ether 00:01:02:03:04:05
Trying to bring up this interface results in the following:
# ifscheme foo
# ifup eth1
SIOCSIFHWADDR: Operation not supported
Failed to bring up eth1-foo
I have experienced this problem with the stock
linux-image-2.6.30-1-486 package kerenel and with custom built images
for the crusoe processor using the same config file as a 2.6.29 kernel
(which has no problem setting the NIC hwaddress). Booting back into a
2.6.29 kernel allows me to set the hardware address, so this problem
seems to really be kernel related and not caused by the userland
networking tools.
I have not yet investigated if this problem specifically relates to
the orinoco driver or if it is a more general issue.
Cheers,
Nick.
PS. The system information appended by reportbug below are for the
system on which the custom kernels were built, *not* the machine in
which the bug was observed.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-686-bigmem (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages linux-source-2.6.30 depends on:
ii binutils 2.19.1-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii bzip2 1.0.5-2 high-quality block-sorting file co
Versions of packages linux-source-2.6.30 recommends:
ii gcc 4:4.3.3-9 The GNU C compiler
ii libc6-dev [libc-dev] 2.9-14 GNU C Library: Development Librari
ii make 3.81-5 The GNU version of the "make" util
Versions of packages linux-source-2.6.30 suggests:
ii kernel-package 12.014 A utility for building Linux kerne
ii libncurses5-dev [ncurses- 5.7+20090523-1 developer's libraries and docs for
ii libqt3-mt-dev 3:3.3.8b-5+b1 Qt development files (Threaded)
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