Subject: Re: attemping to change Orinoco MAC address gives "wiconfig siocswavelan: invalid argument"
To: Tom Nakamura <imifumei@imap.cc>
From: uhel <uhel@gmx.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/24/2005 11:48:34
Hi,

> Hi, I have a proxim orinoco gold classic wireless card; it is recognized
> (when plugging/unplugging) fine by the GENERIC-laptop kernel's wi(4)
> driver on my IBM 560E thinkpad, a pentium 166 machine (old, i know). I
> can connect to my 802.11b linksys base station just fine. However, when
> i do "wiconfig wi0 -m 00:11:22:33:44:55", it gives me the error: 
>   "wiconfig SIOCSWAVELAN: invalid argument". 
> (apparently netbsd's ifconfig can't set the "ether option", which is why
> I'm using wiconfig). What am I doing wrong here? Upon error nothing is
> appended to dmesg, nor is there a kernel message to the console. Could
> it be the Orinoco is incapable of changing MAC addresses? Shall I try a
> Prism II card? (a local store has a DWL 650 on sale...)

i've tryed it with a Prism II card (Linksys WCP11) on NetBSD 2.0. Same
Error: "wiconfig SIOCSWAVELAN: invalid argument" .....

> thanks, 
> Tom Nakamura
> p.s. sorry if this is the inappropriate list.

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uli

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