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Hi,
I'm trying to change MAC (hardware address) of my wireless Broadcom card. I did installed macchanger utility and tried to change it with
# macchanger -a wlan0
# macchanger -A wlan0
# macchanger -m e0:ca:66:77:7e:cf
but none of the above methods did worked - the MAC address did not changed.
I even tried to bring the interface down with
ifconfig wlan0 down
then apply the macchanger but after bringing the interface back up with
ifconfig wlan0 up
the machine completely locks up and stops responding.
Any idea what am I doing wrong ?
Last edited by dunric29a (2013-01-30 10:46:04)
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Bring it down ,change then back up.....
ifconfig <interface> hw ether 00:11:22:33:44:55
Should work.
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You could try the following, which solved a possibly similar problem with a JME card:
ip link set dev wlan0 down
ip link set dev wlan0 promisc on
macchanger -a wlan0
ip link set dev wlan0 up
Then reconnect with wpa_supplicant or whatever you use.
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You could try the following, which solved a possibly similar problem with a JME card:
ip link set dev wlan0 down ip link set dev wlan0 promisc on macchanger -a wlan0 ip link set dev wlan0 up
Then reconnect with wpa_supplicant or whatever you use.
Simply great. I could not google this answer for a long time. The cards need to be set into promiscuous mode.
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@ dunric29a, I've coded a bash script called "SMAC" you can find it on git here > https://github.com/GoTux/Bash/blob/master/smac.sh
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