Hi All,

I have a wrtsl54gs and I am using Kamikaze 7.07 (2.4 kernel).

I noticed that the mac address of the wireless interface was incorrect (00:10:18:90:20:DB) so I erased the nvram because I was told that the NIC mac address was set via cfe using settings stored the nvram.   This did not work either, but I noticed an nvram setting "il0macaddr" with the correct mac address.   Hrmm.  So I reinstalled the stock linksys firmware and checked the mac addresses listed on the status page.  Everything was correct.   So I re-flashed over tftp back to Kamikaze again, and the mac address for the wireless was incorrect again!

Any ideas?  I know it is possible to set the mac address in the config files (that is what I have done for now)  but still something seems wrong.  I shouldn't have to do that.

Thanks,
Sam

Hello Sam,

I had the same problem under WR 0.9 ....
It can be "fixed" by adding an init script ..
Create an init script in /etc/init.d/ named S98fix_wl0_mac:

#!/bin/sh
wifi down
ifconfig `nvram get wl0_ifname` down
ifconfig `nvram get wl0_ifname` hw ether `nvram get wl0_hwaddr`
ifconfig `nvram get wl0_ifname` up
wifi up

chmod +x /etc/init.d/S98fix_wl0_mac

This works in WR 0.9 but not sure about Kamikaze ...
Should work if the nvram variable are set ...

Noel

This is a problem under Whiterussian and Kamikaze.  Fortunately, there is an easy one-time fix for both.  I agree that this is probably a bug because it seems to be specific to WRTSL54GS.

Whiterussian:

nvram set wifi_hwaddr=$(nvram get wl0_hwaddr)
nvram commit

Kamikaze:
(Note: change the wl0 in network.wl0.macaddr to whatever you named your wireless device in /etc/config/wireless and /etc/config/network)

uci set network.wl0.macaddr=$(nvram get wl0_hwaddr)
uci commit