From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 26 04:15:03 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F49A106564A for ; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:15:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from callumgibson@optusnet.com.au) Received: from fallbackmx06.syd.optusnet.com.au (fallbackmx06.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6B4A8FC0C for ; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:15:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from callumgibson@optusnet.com.au) Received: from mail07.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail07.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.188]) by fallbackmx06.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n5Q1cXVq017539 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:38:33 +1000 Received: from omma.gibson.athome (c122-106-69-195.rivrw1.nsw.optusnet.com.au [122.106.69.195]) by mail07.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.13.1/8.13.1) with SMTP id n5Q1cULP000559 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:38:31 +1000 Received: (qmail 50724 invoked by uid 107); 26 Jun 2009 11:38:30 +1000 Date: 26 Jun 2009 11:38:30 +1000 Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:38:30 +1000 From: Callum Gibson To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090626013829.GA49997@omma.gibson.athome> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Subject: bwi mac address changes? X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:15:03 -0000 G'day, I'm giving the new bwi driver a spin on my HP nx6125 which has a Broadcom BCM4309 wireless nic. This machine came with 32bit WinXP and under FreeBSD I've been using ndis with a 64bit Windows driver from Asus (I think). As a general report, the bwi driver in combination with the bwi-firmware-kmod port is working well. I am experiencing a display glitch on my X root window which seems to be related to using this driver, but no issues apart from that so far. Today I noticed I'd retrieved a new IP with DHCP and tracked it down to a change in MAC address. Going through the messages file I noticed it was always one less when using bwi and reverted back to the original MAC address under ndis (and Windows XP with the 32 bit driver). ndis: XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:39 bwi: XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:38 Is this expected behaviour or is something odd happening? It's not related to the firmware kmod because the logs showed it changed MAC with bwi before I'd installed that port. Someone suggested it might be trimming the LSB. I'm running fairly recent current (a week old): FreeBSD incant 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #4: Thu Jun 25 20:48:42 EST 2009 root@incant:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/INCANT amd64 regards, Callum -- Callum Gibson @ home http://members.optusnet.com.au/callumgibson/