Re: Changing the MAC address on a LAN adapter

2011-01-24 Thread Paul B Mahol
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 3:47 PM, John R. Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote: Is this a known problem?  As far as I know, it's supposed to work. How you change MAC address? With ether command? # ifconfig em0 ether 01:17:a4:8f:04:5d Well, if it does not work it can be driver bug. In iwn case try to

Re: Changing the MAC address on a LAN adapter

2011-01-24 Thread Da Rock
On 01/25/11 01:14, Paul B Mahol wrote: On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 3:47 PM, John R. Levinejo...@iecc.com wrote: Is this a known problem? As far as I know, it's supposed to work. How you change MAC address? With ether command? # ifconfig em0 ether 01:17:a4:8f:04:5d

Re: Changing the MAC address on a LAN adapter

2011-01-24 Thread John R. Levine
Is this a known problem?  As far as I know, it's supposed to work. Well, if it does not work it can be driver bug. Well, yes, that's what I'm asking. Is it a known driver bug? In iwn case try to set MAC address of iwn before creating wlan or you will need to set same MAC on wlanX and iwn.

Re: Changing the MAC address on a LAN adapter

2011-01-24 Thread Fred
Da Rock wrote: On 01/25/11 01:14, Paul B Mahol wrote: On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 3:47 PM, John R. Levinejo...@iecc.com wrote: Is this a known problem? As far as I know, it's supposed to work. How you change MAC address? With ether command? # ifconfig em0 ether

Re: Changing the MAC address on a LAN adapter

2011-01-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 24, 2011, at 10:44 AM, Fred wrote: Ethernet MAC addresses are assigned by the manufacturer of the equipment. Each unit gets a unique address which generally can't be changed and shouldn't be changed. The manufacturer buys a block of addresses from the IEEE. Yes, although folks can

Re: Changing the MAC address on a LAN adapter

2011-01-24 Thread Da Rock
On 01/25/11 04:44, Fred wrote: Da Rock wrote: On 01/25/11 01:14, Paul B Mahol wrote: On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 3:47 PM, John R. Levinejo...@iecc.com wrote: Is this a known problem? As far as I know, it's supposed to work. How you change MAC address? With ether command? # ifconfig em0 ether

Re: Changing the MAC address on a LAN adapter

2011-01-23 Thread Paul B Mahol
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 3:38 AM, John Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote: My Lenovo laptop running 8.1 has two ordinary Intel network adapters, a wired PRO/1000 with the em driver and a WiFi PRO/Wireless 5300 with the iwn driver.  They work fine, but for either one if I use ifconfig to change the MAC

Re: Changing the MAC address on a LAN adapter

2011-01-23 Thread John R. Levine
Is this a known problem?  As far as I know, it's supposed to work. How you change MAC address? With ether command? # ifconfig em0 ether 01:17:a4:8f:04:5d Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for Dummies, Please consider the environment before reading this

Changing the MAC address on a LAN adapter

2011-01-22 Thread John Levine
My Lenovo laptop running 8.1 has two ordinary Intel network adapters, a wired PRO/1000 with the em driver and a WiFi PRO/Wireless 5300 with the iwn driver. They work fine, but for either one if I use ifconfig to change the MAC address, the adapter won't actually work until I change the address