Normally incognito will now automatically connect to my home wireless network upon start-up.

However, if I add 'macchanger' to the command line, it will be unable to connect.

I like the idea of this feature. Is there some way to fix this problem? also, what is the actual benefit of hiding your mac address? is it transmitted in IP packets? if you are connecting to Tor anyway, isn't the exit node the only thing that is traceable? is that going to contain your mac address?

Thanks,

Sy

Changing MAC address shouldn't cause any troubles unless 1) your network card or its driver is broken and somehow missbehaves when the MAC address is changed, or 2) your wireless access point have some sort of MAC address filtering enabled which denies access to all but a select few MAC addresses.

MAC addresses are used only for the first hop on the network so, no, it won't be included in the IP packets. For more information, see this section of the walkthrough. In short, this feature is only relevant if you don't want the owner of some public network you connect through to be able to know when you get back to it.