From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
To: info@danieleparisi.me
Cc: 21019@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21019: ifconfig doesn't allow mac change for devices
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 08:58:13 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87twtc1rm2.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <30839489.567159.1436465766764.JavaMail.open-xchange@app2.ox.privateemail.com> (info@danieleparisi.me's message of "Thu, 9 Jul 2015 14:16:06 -0400 (EDT)")
info@danieleparisi.me info@danieleparisi.me (2015-07-09 21:16 +0300) wrote:
> Hello, I am trying to install guixsd with the installation image, my wireless
> internet provider allows me for only one MAC. The command I use to change the
> card mac on other distros and installation images is:
>
> ifconfig device hw ether NewMacAdress
>
> But with guixsd ifconfig fails telling me that the device can have only one
> address. Interesting to notice that I can put whatever device, even non existent
> names like "jlakjdj" and it tells the same thing, the device can only have on
> adress. I have an Atheros card.
As I answered on IRC <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2015-07-09#T695806>,
my speculative guess is that perhaps ifconfig is patched on other
distros to handle this problem.
Did you try "ip link set <device> address <address>"?
--
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-10 5:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-09 18:16 bug#21019: ifconfig doesn't allow mac change for devices info@danieleparisi.me info@danieleparisi.me
2015-07-10 5:58 ` Alex Kost [this message]
2015-07-10 6:46 ` info@danieleparisi.me info@danieleparisi.me
2015-07-10 17:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
[not found] ` <87zj33c43v.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-07-10 18:09 ` bug#21019: [bug-inetutils] " Alfred M. Szmidt
2015-07-10 23:13 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-07-11 9:22 ` info@danieleparisi.me info@danieleparisi.me
[not found] ` <500058978.590533.1436606574412.JavaMail.open-xchange@app2.ox.privateemail.com>
2015-07-11 10:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
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