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From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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On 11/20/2009 08:50 AM, Ehud Gavron wrote:
> How does WL do it?  Broadcom *has* to generate a MAC address that is
> both unique and in its assigned range.  If we can do the same thing in
> B43 that would be ideal.

They are memory mapping a file in /etc/wlan. How this file is generated is not
known. I looked at the Acer One D250 driver for Windows, but got no clue there.

Larry