Comments on: Change your Network Card MAC Address on Ubuntu

By: Eiji Takanaka

Eiji Takanaka — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:18:46 +0000

2ndid Billz.

Jkenz solution works for wireless also!

Good work geez!

By: billz

billz — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 05:14:03 +0000

jken’s method is brilliant and is the way I am looking for.

By: tovan

tovan — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:24:16 +0000

after changing my mac address, it doesnt want to connect over a network.
when tried to ping to dns, it says “destination host unreachable”
but if i restore the old mac address, networking is fine.
how to configure so that the fake mac address can connect to a network?
please suggest

By: Joielechong

Joielechong — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 06:43:35 +0000

You can try my simple frontend to macchanger called macchangerGUI at
http://medan-slackware.blogspot.com/2010/06/macchangergui-frontend-macchanger-untuk.html

The blog use indonesian, please use google translator to read it.

By: jken

jken — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 04:22:36 +0000

sudo vi /etc/network/interface

add “pre-up ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:e0:4c:dd:7e:b3″

By: SwiftPengu

SwiftPengu — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:06:34 +0000

I can change my wlanX, so it might be your adapter

By: 8pia

8pia — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:52:23 +0000

azwar: The change is not permanent. Reboot and your old MAC is restored. reboot is not neccesary to restore MAC, you can type:
# macchanger --mac=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX ethX

XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX=your original MAC

To show your original MAC, of course before you’ve changed it:
# macchanger -s ethX

What I want to know is why macchanger only works on ethX, and not my wlanX?

By: azwar

azwar — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 06:34:44 +0000

If I change my mac address, is the changes is permanent. How can I restore back my old MAC address.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:33:27 +0000

Ubuntu Users who don’t know do to start/stop network services:

To stop network services, enter this command:

sudo ifconfig (network interface) down

To start again:

sudo ifconfig (network interface) up

By: John Gary Bovay

John Gary Bovay — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:36:02 +0000

MAC Changer for Ubuntu 8.04 needs a GUI to make it as easy and convenient to use as various MAC changers are for Windows.

By: Pedro

Pedro — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:47:50 +0000

For Ubuntu Userssudo /etc/init.d/networking stop doesn’t work for me still running i have hardy