From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020809 Description of problem: There is no "bind to MAC address" field in neat for wireless devices (in the hardware tab), like there is one for Ethernet devices. However, neat automatically binds it to the MAC address of whatever device is present without telling the user, which can be wrong in the case of pluggable PCMCIA cards. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): redhat-config-network-1.1.20-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert a PCMCIA ethernet card 2. Start up neat 3. Configure a wireless device as eth0 (nicknamed wireless) in a new profile Actual Results: In the file /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-wireless HWADDR is set to the MAC address of the ethernet card (not the wireless card, which is not currently inserted). Expected Results: neat should not automatically bind to the MAC address of the present card without telling the user. A "bind to MAC address" field just like the one for Ethernet cards should be presentr for wireless cards too. This would let the user specify if the device should be bound to a particular HWADDR and probe for it. Additional info:
fixed in CVS