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04-13-2008, 04:42 PM
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Registered: Jan 2005
Location: US
Distribution: Centos, Ubuntu, Solaris, Redhat
Posts: 396
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ath0 mac address wrong
Hi all, when I boot my computer my wifi card has the correct mac address:
ifconfig | grep -a HW
ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:AF:67:96:24
wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-15-AF-67-96-24-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
Now if I destroy and put ath0 in monitor mode the following happens:
ifconfig ath0 down
wlanconfig ath0 destroy
wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode monitor
ifconfig | grep -a HW
ath0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 06-15-AF-67-96-24-40-E2-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-15-AF-67-96-24-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
In managed mode it shows this:
ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 06:15:AF:67:96:24
wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-15-AF-67-96-24-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
Notice the weird unholyness, basically it works at boot time and the addy is correct then when I make a change, the mac address is entirely different!
Any ideas on fixing this? I've tried macchanger (works until I reboot) and ifconfig ath0 hw ether blah, also works till I reboot. It's a real pain as I can't connect to anything.
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04-15-2008, 03:39 AM
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Registered: Jan 2005
Location: US
Distribution: Centos, Ubuntu, Solaris, Redhat
Posts: 396
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Got it...
It needed the -bssid flag at the end of wlanconfig, weird. I'm certain I havent always had to put that :S.
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