From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 12 16:49:35 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 816F016A4CF for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 16:49:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (imap.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B22B943D5F for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 16:49:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from free.bsd@gmx.net) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 12 Apr 2005 16:49:30 -0000 Received: from pD95D1732.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO [192.168.2.101]) [217.93.23.50] by mail.gmx.net (mp010) with SMTP; 12 Apr 2005 18:49:30 +0200 X-Authenticated: #20105305 Message-ID: <425BFC0C.9040508@gmx.net> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 00:49:16 +0800 From: FreeBSD Daemon User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Subject: Can't change MAC address of my WAG311 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 16:49:35 -0000 dear list, I am operating a Netgear WAG311 (Atheros AR5212) under FBSD 5.3 Release. I tried to change the MAC address of the device using root# ifconfig ath0 ether aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff which changed the MAC address in the ifconfig ath0 output. But wicontrol -i ath0 still showed the old (original) MAC address and that MAC address also is being used on the network. Trying to change the MAC address using root# wicontrol -i ath0 -m aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff results in a wicontrol: SIOCSWAVELAN: Invalid Argument error message. Am I doing something wrong? TIA zheyu