CFT: axe(4) station address patch

Hans Petter Selasky hselasky at c2i.net
Wed Sep 16 21:54:37 UTC 2009


Hi,

Can you send me the patch.

Seems like the list software stripped it off.

--HPS

On Wednesday 16 September 2009 20:52:56 Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Traditionally axe(4) didn't support reprogramming station address
> (node id) as datasheet does not mention the required command.
> However AX88178 datasheet has the command and it seems the command
> works as expected. I've attached patch which will enable changing
> ethernet address of the controller for AX88178/AX88772/AX88172.
> I couldn't test it on AX88772 and AX88172 controller. So if you
> have these controllers would you give it try let me know how it
> goes on your controller?
>
> <testing>
> Check the ethernet address and change it to other address with
> ifconfig(8). The following command will change the ethernet address
> to aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff.
> #ifconfig ue0 down
> #ifconfig ue0 ether aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff
> #ifconfig ue0 up
> After that check whether you can still use network.
>
> Hans, would you review the patch?



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