Subject: Re: Mac addr difference in wifi0 and ath0
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.drivers.madwifi.user
Date: 2008-08-29 23:55:27 GMT (18 weeks, 6 days, 8 hours and 37 minutes ago)
On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 17:29 +0530, Queenie de Melo wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone tell me the difference between the MAC address of Wifi0 and > ath0? > > I have installed a PCI Wireless card and i can see the MAC address of > the PCI WiFi card listed under Wifi0. > So ifconfig wifi0 will show mac as: > Example: 00:01:02:03:04:05 > However the ifconfig ath0 shows the mac address as 06:01:02:03:04:05 > > I wanted to know how exactly the 06 is taken up by ath0? See ATH_SET_VAP_BSSID definition in ath/if_ath.c and the preceding comment. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/