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I may be wrong but I was always under the impression that on the Eeepc you could change the mac addy of a virtual wifi interface in monitor mode I believe I have seen something on the Backtrack forums that the wifi on the Eeepc will support mac changing because it gets a fair bit of use in war driving and wlan penetration testing. Steph 2008/11/13 trewornan <trewornan@xxxxxxxxx>: > --- On Wed, 12/11/08, Grant Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> From: Grant Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >> You say usual methods don't work - what have you tried? >> >> --Grant > > ifdown ra0 > ifconfig ra0 hw ether 00:11:22:33:44:55 > > and > > wlanconfig destroy ra0 > macchanger -mac 00:11:22:33:44:55 wifi0 > wlanconfig ra0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode managed > > both seem to immediately revert back to the original mac - I've read suggestions > that sometimes macs are copied into a register and this can then overwrite a new > mac but the details are hard to find. > > Trewornan > > > > > > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html > -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS/S d- s+:+ a+ C+++ U+++ P L++ E W++ N+ K- w--$ O— M- V— L++++>$ PS+++ PE Y++ PGP++ t+ 5+++ X- R+ tv- b DI++ D++ G e* h+ r++ y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html