Reporting wrong mac address

[mrrrl]

I am running Redhat 9 on a Dell 2650c laptop. I have a D-Link 650+ that connects to a 614+ wireless hub/router. Works fine when running Win XP. Can't get it to work with RH. The only problem I see is that Redhat reports the mac address as 00 08 XX XX XX XX which is wrong. The correct mac address is 00 80 XX XX XX XX.

How do I correct this to get the card working?

TIA

 

[danielhozac]

Do you have a wireless and a wired network card in your computer? What does

ifconfig -a

print?

//Daniel

 

[mrrrl]

Yes I have both. The one being a build in. But it has a completely different mac address id. The wired nic card works fine. Showing ifconfig shows the wrong mac address for the wireless(00-08-ae-34-ee-22 vice 00-80-ae-34-ee-22). 80 being transposed to 08. I am only running one at a time.

 

[danielhozac]

How do you know it's "wrong"? I mean, the MAC address is fetched from the card, and when it's just one part that's not correct, I strongly doubt that it's "wrong".

//Daniel

 

[mrrrl]

When I ipconfig in winxp it shows the correct number and it works with winxp.

Also mac address are listed on the cards.

 

[pansophic]

There is an application called macchanger that you can download to change the MAC address of a NIC. You might want to use that to do some testing.

I understand that you can also do it by using ifconfig <interface> hw 00:00:00:00:00:00.

Otherwise it just seems to be a bug. If macchanger or ifconfig work for you, then you probably need to submit a bug report. Otherwise, you'll just have to live with it.


pansophic

 

[mrrrl]

Couldn't find macchanger, but on another RH 9 machine ifconfig eth1 hw 00:00:00:00:00:00 worked.

But on the laptop this won't work as it does not recoginze eth1 because of the different(Wrong) mac address. I can't even do ifdown. It just reports the error and ignores the command.

Does anyone know where and what file the mac address is stored at?

 

[pansophic]

Here is the macchanger home page:

http://www.alobbs.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=macc&file=index

It compiled on my RedHat 9.0 box.

This was an interesting article on how to change the MAC address on boot.

http://www.netsys.com/suse-linux-e/2001/12/msg00510.html

pansophic