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On Thursday, 12 November 2020 23:40:38 GMT William Kenworthy wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I am trying to change the mac address of a realtek wifi card using |
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> either mac_wlan0="<new MAC address>" in /etc/conf.d/net (which is in |
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> the handbook) or manually using ifconfig wlan0 hw ether <new MAC |
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> address> and its not working. |
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This is weird. Is the NIC identified by the kernel as wlan0, or have you |
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changed this somewhere with an alias. I don't know for sure if it would make |
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a difference, but just in case. |
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> Is there another way or am I stuck? |
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> BillK |
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You could use the iproute command, although if the above two options have not |
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worked I'm not sure this will work either: |
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rc-service -v net.wlan0 stop |
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ip link set wlan0 address 01:02:03:04:05:06 |
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rc-service -v net.wlan0 start |
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ip link show wlan0 |
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