[Prism54-devel] Re: wireless API semantics when netif down?

[Herbert Valerio Riedel]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 10:54:26AM +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote:
[..]
> The best solution would of course be if the driver could report the
> real mac address even before the interface is up. 
[..]

alas this requires the firmware to have been uploaded and be operational;
something that'd be easiest/best to do at ifup time... 

it's quite annoying to have such a large firmware, which needs to be
loaded from time to time, and which for now has to reside on the
filesystem...

regards,
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