Change MAC address of Intel 5300 Wifi card?

[albo]

Hi Folks,

Intel states that in the newer versions of their drivers they've disabled the ability for users to manually set the MAC address of their card. Anyone know of other utilities that can set the MAC address now that intel has disabled that functionality?

thanks!

[ThinkRob]

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crow:/home/rob# ifconfig wlan2
wlan2     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:26:c6:4c:2d:ae  
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:165599 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:112056 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:158821750 (151.4 MiB)  TX bytes:18706390 (17.8 MiB)

crow:/home/rob# ifconfig wlan2 hw ether 00:00:DE:AD:BE:EF
crow:/home/rob# ifconfig wlan2
wlan2     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:de:ad:be:ef  
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:165599 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:112056 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:158821750 (151.4 MiB)  TX bytes:18706390 (17.8 MiB)

Works fine for me!

[yak]

When I tried to change the MAC on my T60 with 3945abg, I had to revert to an older driver for it to work. However no such driver may be available for the new cards.

As Rob said, it usually works out-of-the-box in Linux.

[albo]

So, getting back to this topic, does anyone know if there's any little utility for windows that might allow someone to do this? It'd be nice if cygwin had ifconfig, but i even if it did, i doubt that'd work as it probably would only work if a linux driver had exclusive access to the device.

so - any other ideas?

thanks!

[ljwobker]

try this in windows... go to network connections, right click your wireless network adapter.
select properties... you should get a popup and you should be able to "configure" the adapter itself...click on "configure" ... your driver may or may not have an option to change the MAC address.

[zekeblue]

So, getting back to this topic, does anyone know if there's any little utility for windows that might allow someone to do this? It'd be nice if cygwin had ifconfig, but i even if it did, i doubt that'd work as it probably would only work if a linux driver had exclusive access to the device.

so - any other ideas?

thanks!

You can try this:

http://amac.paqtool.com/

May not work on Win7 and/or 64bit.

[albo]

nice idea zeke, but no joy. i see you have win7x64 - have you tried it on your own computer?

[zekeblue]

nice idea zeke, but no joy. i see you have win7x64 - have you tried it on your own computer?

I have not. I used it a while back on XP successfully.

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