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mac spoofing

Asked by Deepak Mishra

am using ubuntu 8.04, and i need to fake my mac address for my wireless card (a dlink one) in order to get connected to my wpa network.
i was earlier provided a static address of 192.168.16.61 (before spoofing)
on windows, i have reconfigured my mac address persistently, and get an address od 192.168.16.91
i have tried various methods to fake that address in ubuntu, including macchanger, but the problems are :
1. the changes are not persistent
2. they work hardly 2% of times

i am discussing my windows addressing too, just to show that in windows i have no problems getting the connection. and i just wanted to ask...is sual-booting affecting this case anyhow ? i have heard that the address gets stored in the EPROM of the nic temporarily, which may cause problems..

please give your solutions specific to wireless stuff and not for wired connections.
thanks.

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#1

Hi,
sorry no solution, but a search "wireless" in documentation found e.g.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuWirelessRouter

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Inox (inox) said : 		#2

Please let us know what steps have been already tried?
interface=wlan0 (or ath0 or whatever)
Did you
ifconfig wlan0 down
your interface before trying
ifconfig wlan0 hw ether 01:41:8B:6E:11:FF (for example)
and
ifconfig wlan0 up
after that?

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Jim Hutchinson (jphutch) said : 		#3

Don't give up on macchanger. It does what you want. The trick, iirc, is to run it as a login script or session startup script. I think there is a way to do it permanently too but that may be a bit drastic. I'd just modify the AP first rather than hack the nic.

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Deepak Mishra (dpux) said : 		#4

thanks a lot to all of you.. but i am sorry, i dont need to spoof my mac anymore...so i have no point trying all these solutions...still many a thanks for all your efforts.