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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] To Wifi or not to Wifi...
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 17:55:17
Message-Id: 201507291854.54616.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] To Wifi or not to Wifi... by Meino.Cramer@gmx.de
1 On Wednesday 29 Jul 2015 16:05:10 Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote:
2 > Thanasis <thanasis@××××××××××.org> [15-07-29 16:38]:
3 > > On 07/29/2015 05:42 AM, Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote:
4 > > <...snip...>
5 > >
6 > > >2) How I can assign a static IP to my tablet.
7 > >
8 > > At the end of /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf add a line like
9 > >
10 > > host mytablet { hardware ethernet xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx; fixed-address
11 > > xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx; }
12 > >
13 > > >3) How I can change the MAC on my tablet.
14 > >
15 > > What is the OS on the tablet?
16 >
17 > Hi Thanasis,
18 >
19 > thanks for your help!
20 > I didn't thought of "dynamically" assigning a fixed IP to
21 > my tablet via DHCPd (my fault). But this is an elegant solution
22 > for this!
23
24 If your client is running dhcpcd, then
25
26 --request 123.456.78.9 #will request this address from the server
27
28 --inform 123.456.78.9/24 #will inform the server of this address
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30
31 > The tablet runs Android Lollipop 5.0. The tablet is an
32 > ASUS MeMO Pad 7 (ME176CX).
33
34 To set the IP address manually:
35
36 ifconfig wlan0 123.456.78.9
37
38 or
39
40 ip addr add 123.456.78.9 dev wlan0
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42 depending on the commands that come with this distro.
43
44
45 To change the MAC address manually:
46
47 ifconfig wlan0 hw ether 00:AA:BB:CC:DD:FF
48
49 or
50
51 ip link set wlan0 address 00:AA:BB:CC:DD:FF
52
53
54 Reboot to get back what you had originally.
55
56 --
57 Regards,
58 Mick

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