Bug 3510

Summary:	wl_cfg80211_get_station : Wrong Mac address
Product:	Fedora	Reporter:	Joshua <joshua>
Component:	wl-kmod	Assignee:	NVieville <nicolas.vieville>
Status:	RESOLVED EXPIRED
Severity:	normal	CC:	jarod
Priority:	P5
Version:	21
Hardware:	All
OS:	GNU/Linux
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Description Joshua 2015-01-19 14:47:04 CET

This module is working however it fills all my log files with:

ERROR @wl_cfg80211_get_station : Wrong Mac address, mac = 4a:ea:be:a9:15:6c   profile =00:00:00:00:00:00

This is written several times every few seconds to system log and console. I would really like to turn it off as the "error" is meaningless and the number of occurrences makes it very difficult to view logs.

 kernel 3.17.8-300.fc21.x86_64

lspci:
12:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)

Comment 1 NVieville 2015-01-19 16:35:00 CET

Hello,

Thanks for reporting this issue. I've noticed that you already reported this issue (https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2984#c8), but sorry for my lack of answer.

Maybe you should be interested in the comment of response 2 of this thread:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/249566/wrong-mac-address-error-in-virtual-console

The user has solved the problem by "cloning" the real mac address in the "cloned MAC address" in the GUI settings tool for NetworkManager.

For my part, on Fedora 20, with nothing in the "cloned MAC address" setting, I've got no messages in logs.

Please, if you could provide feedback about this workaround, this should be probably (I hope so) useful for other users.

Cordially,


-- 
NVieville

Comment 2 Joshua 2015-01-19 17:03:30 CET

Thank you, I've tried the solution suggested and it has no effect on my system -- fc21 kde desktop.

The mac address it shows is neither the AP mac nor the mac of the broadcom interface. Adding a cloned mac address does not change the "profile =00:00:00:00:00:00" error. Perhaps if I knew what "profile" refers to I could  do something about it. 

I have to do something because my log files, journal become enormous and impossible to read. 

Is there some way to change the debug level of the running module?

Comment 3 Emmanuel Seyman 2015-12-04 13:48:47 CET

RPMFusion is no longer releasing updates for this version of Fedora. This bug
will be set to RESOLVED:EXPIRED next week to reflect this.

If the problem persists after upgrading to the latest version of Fedora, please
update the version field of this bug (and re-open it if it has been closed).

Comment 4 Emmanuel Seyman 2015-12-13 11:13:00 CET

Closing this bug with the EXPIRED resolution since Fedora no longer ships updates for this version of Fedora.

Please set the Version field to a supported version of Fedora if you re-open this bug.