RE: changing mac address on madwifi-ng

For Madwifi-ng drivers, you have two devices, the wifi0 for the actual
interface and ath0 (usually) for station mode.

So to macchange you have to destroy the "ath" device, bring wifi0 down
and change mac address and then re-create the "ath" device.

1. wlanconfig ath0 destroy
2. ifconfig wifi0 down
3. macchanger --mac=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx wifi0
4. wlanconfig ath create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode station
5. ifconfig ath0 up

That usually works for me :-P

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Subject: Re: changing mac address on madwifi-ng

Seems like a resounding vote for macchanger. I think I did try it in
the past for wired stuff but then left it as I could do the same thing
with ifconfig.

I'll give it a try with madwifi-ng

Thanks

Robin

On 5/4/07, Robin Wood <dninja-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi
> Can anyone tell me how to change my mac address when running the
> madwifi-ng drivers? Josh, I remember you telling me that there was
> some way to do it with command line tools but you couldn't remember
> exactly what it was.
>
> Just to pre-empt people, as far as I can tell, the ifconfig hw thing
> doesn't work.
>
> Robin
>