[Prism54-users] Prism able to "spoof" MAC addresses?

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

FYI,
Brideging does work with the driver and it was in fact working in my
apartment. It's not really that trivial to set up so good luck :-D

Perhaps this post might help:
http://prism54.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3D10

=09Luis

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Richard Atterer wrote:

> Hello,
>
> today, I tried to set up bridging on a Linux host between an ethernet
> segment (xover cable to another host) and the WLAN. This didn't work; the
> Linux bridge did not forward frames in the ethernet->WLAN
> direction, only in the WLAN->ethernet one.
>
> Does the hardware/firmware of my Netgear WG511 allow the driver to set
> different MAC addresses for different outgoing frames?
>
> The respective FAQ at http://bridge.sourceforge.net/faq.html states that
> the firmware of many WLAN cards does not allow you to make outgoing frame=
s
> have arbitrary MAC addresses, so bridging does not work. However, it has
> the following to say:
>
>   If you urgently need to have a wireless lan card which is able to bridg=
e,
>   you should use one of those having the prism chipset onboard
>   (manufactured by Harris Intersil). There are drivers for those cards
>   available at www.linux-wlan.com (which is the website from Absoval), an=
d
>   I found a mail that says that there is the necessary firmware and an
>   upload tool available for Linux to the public.
>
> But this info is old (2001) and probably only applies to the old Prism
> chipset.
>
> Cheers,
>
>   Richard
>
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