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Title: nm-applet fails to alert the user when the Cloned MAC address cannot be set Status in Network Manager GNOME Applet: New Status in “network-manager-applet” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I have a netbook whose wifi driver seems to be refusing to allow a custom MAC address to be set. The Network Manager applet allows me to enter a value in the "Cloned MAC address" field, but when it comes time to actually set the MAC address and the driver doesn't accept it, the applet fails to notify me of the problem and exposes my hardware MAC address to the wireless network anyway. NetworkManager does log the problem to syslog, but relatively few users will notice this because the UI makes it look like everything worked just fine, and it doesn't solve the problem of quietly exposing the hardware MAC address without the user's permission. This is on an i386 Ubuntu 13.04 (raring) system, with network-manager- gnome 0.9.8.0-1ubuntu2. The wlan driver is rt8800pci. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/network-manager-applet/+bug/1192738/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
