Re: Wi-Fi broken on Dell E6520, Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 AGN, Debian 11.7 Xfce

[Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com>]

On Fri, 5 May 2023 12:29:53 +0200
zithro <slack@rabbit.lu> wrote:

> That would be nice for them to tell you what THEY consider a valid
> MAC addr, as I don't think Debian produces MACs with z or x in it ...
> Maybe they check against a valid manufacturer (which is the 1st half
> of the MAC addr, iirc called OUI) ?

See the Debian package ieee-data.


> I'm curious if the Xen OUI is valid for them (00:16:3e:nn:nn:nn).

It appears to be.

root@freeman:~# grep 16:3e /var/lib/arpwatch/ethercodes.db 
0:16:3e	Xensource, Inc.
root@freeman:~#

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