Mac – Change MAC address of a wireless network adapter

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Okay, so I have officially tried every solution to an issue I can think of. I have even tried 3 distributions of LINUX, with still the same issue. [even bought Windows 7].

I have been trying to access my school wifi connection for about… 5 months now. 2 weeks into this year I could connect, Last year I could connect, however for 5 months I have been unable. The school wifi technician says he doenst know if he implemented a MAC address block, or not, and won't let me even look to see if he did. So now I am trying to resort to MAC address spoofing.

My issue lies in the fact that i can not seem to get an address to work with my wireless card. Apparently it is incompatible, or some other reason might be preventing me from connecting after changing the mac address [cant even connect to home network if I change it].

Any ideas? My wireless card is an "Intel PRO/Wireless 3945BG network connection offering dual-mode 802.11a/b/g wireless LAN connection. "

Any info would be helpful, thanks.

Best Answer

If your hardware doesn't support changing it's MAC address then the easiest solution would be to purchase a new USB 802.11x card. Since the MAC address depends on the NIC a new usb card would do the trick.

Edit:
You can change your MAC address by doing this.

From the command line, log in as root and type;

ifdown eth0
ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:80:FF:FF:98:F5
ifup eth0

This change will only persist until you reboot, so you probably want to put this in your boot script /etc/init.d/

Credit : http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/suse-linux/24956-clone-mac-address.html