Bug#536455: linux-source-2.6.30: Unable to set NIC hwaddress

2009-07-09 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi Ben, * Ben Hutchings [090710 11:56]: > > The MAC change operation seems to have been accidentally left out of > this driver in a change to the way net device operations are set up. > > Please try applying the following patch: > > --- a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/main.c > +++ b/drivers/net

Bug#536455: linux-source-2.6.30: Unable to set NIC hwaddress

2009-07-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 11:01 +0900, Nick Hastings wrote: > 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

Bug#536455: linux-source-2.6.30: Unable to set NIC hwaddress

2009-07-09 Thread Nick Hastings
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:fo