On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 08:42 +0100, Duncan Sands wrote: > we could do this for the speedtouch - in fact we used to do this: when > someone tried to open a connection, we loaded the firmware if it > hadn't been loaded yet. The problem is with other modems, like the > connexant access runner, for which you can't get all the info needed > to create an ATM device before the firmware is loaded (the MAC address > for example).
Don't we also have Ethernet devices like that -- where the MAC address doesn't get set until you bring the device up? Can we get away with changing the MAC address later? Or is there other stuff we need earlier? -- dwmw2 ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
