Wifi mac address modification in WICED

[Zhengbao_Zhang]

    SUMMARY:

    We shared four ways to set wifi mac address,  this blog is to show the process .

    Test is based on CYW954907AEVAL1F .

• DCT  mode:

1. Add define in app.mk: GLOBAL_DEFINES     += MAC_ADDRESS_SET_BY_HOST
2. 43xxx_Wi-Fi\generated_mac_address.txt

     Modify the address in the directory , it works.

     #define NVRAM_GENERATED_MAC_ADDRESS "macaddr=00:A0:50:38:f6:35"

     #define DCT_GENERATED_MAC_ADDRESS "\x00\xA0\x50\xe8\xf3\x48"

     #define DCT_GENERATED_ETHERNET_MAC_ADDRESS "\x00\xA0\x50\xe5\xf3\x47"

• OTP mode

1. Disable //GLOBAL_DEFINES     += MAC_ADDRESS_SET_BY_HOST
2. Need to clean the building, then make again.

    Starting WICED vWiced_006.002.001.0002

    Platform CYW954907AEVAL1F initialised

    Started ThreadX v5.8

    Initialising NetX_Duo v5.10_sp3

    Creating Packet pools

     WLAN MAC Address : B8:D7:AF:4D:1D:D6

     WLAN Firmware    : wl0: May 15 2018 19:39:17 version 7.15.168.114 (r689934) FWID 01-d6f88905

     WLAN CLM         : API: 12.2 Data: 9.10.74 Compiler: 1.31.3 ClmImport: 1.36.3 Creation: 2018-05-15 19:33:15

1. Let us to go to MFG mode to check the OTP area.

        Have a test with mfg mode:

       test.mfg_test-CYW954907AEVAL1F download download_apps run

• Modify it in NVRAM:
• 43xxx_Wi-Fi\platforms\CYW954907AEVAL1F\board_revision\P101

     static const char wifi_nvram_image[] =

      "sromrev=11" "\x00"

      "vendid=0x14e4"                                                      "\x00"

      "devid=0x43d0" "\x00"

      "macaddr=00:A0:50:38:f6:35" "\x00"

1. Disable //GLOBAL_DEFINES     += MAC_ADDRESS_SET_BY_HOST
2. Do nothing, clean and build again.
3. The mac address still is WLAN MAC Address : B8:D7:AF:4D:1D:D6

I do not find anywhere to fix the MAC address into nvram setting, so I presume OTP priority is higher than NVRAM,  if OTP existed the NVRAM mac address will be ignored .

• CUSTOM MODE:

1. Enable the define in app makefile: GLOBAL_DEFINES     += MAC_ADDRESS_SET_BY_HOST
2. Modify the code, add simple test:
3. 43xxx_Wi-Fi\WICED\platform\MCU\BCM4390x\

    4. bcm4390x_platform.c

wwd_result_t host_platform_get_mac_address( wiced_mac_t* mac )

{

#ifndef WICED_DISABLE_BOOTLOADER

    wiced_mac_t* temp_mac;

    wiced_result_t result;

    result = wiced_dct_read_lock( (void**)&temp_mac, WICED_FALSE, DCT_WIFI_CONFIG_SECTION, OFFSETOF(platform_dct_wifi_config_t, mac_address), sizeof(mac->octet) );

    if ( result != WICED_SUCCESS )

    {

        return (wwd_result_t) result;

    }

    memcpy( mac->octet, temp_mac, sizeof(mac->octet) );

       mac->octet[0]= 0x00;

       mac->octet[1]= 0x11;

       mac->octet[2]= 0x22;

       mac->octet[3]= 0x33;

       mac->octet[4]= 0x44;

       mac->octet[5]= 0x55;

    wiced_dct_read_unlock( temp_mac, WICED_FALSE );

#else

UNUSED_PARAMETER( mac );

#endif

    return WWD_SUCCESS;

}

Starting WICED vWiced_006.002.001.0002

Platform CYW954907AEVAL1F initialised

Started ThreadX v5.8

Initialising NetX_Duo v5.10_sp3

Creating Packet pools

WLAN MAC Address : 00:11:22:33:44:55

WLAN Firmware    : wl0: May 15 2018 19:39:17 version 7.15.168.114 (r689934) FWID 01-d6f88905

WLAN CLM         : API: 12.2 Data: 9.10.74 Compiler: 1.31.3 ClmImport: 1.36.3 Creation: 2018-05-15 19:33:15

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