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