From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 23 14:20:56 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E97DE106566C for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 14:20:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onemda@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f175.google.com (mail-qy0-f175.google.com [209.85.216.175]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F2FC8FC0C for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 14:20:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk8 with SMTP id 8so1841985qyk.13 for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 06:20:55 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=89zvi9OnMdOAcUYaLE12dwNt7+wPYfptJI+Vhv5tdNk=; b=DfAY8Z1M3mpcMVF0XLecK8Ne/oIfa2kPju40SQv1i+k41J1qnQhoqxEewcKkNMA7bN L7aYwCwe6e65ftMuP1bggbThOtF8AWgo4+zoMlxtPECu84KMEY/Pa7feCaHHF0gXctVT ovhsViCtji7kuCSRTP1EdJdGl1wn135/ymYXM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=gKiePRIfmbYBdkCpP2ALkJwbecM3Utxl2/FTeAYtHqXOqD0RrHkIQULmpbP6HB2RUb Fr0r7NEMiAewAkse8NKwRQxkdRUxFS7V9BEY+gyyoua28oQUbJTBErjlQ226pTt0lE3q KEoxvtmaZWFEceXYxNzrv/ywYCLHKOku4/+Ck= Received: by 10.224.74.83 with SMTP id t19mr2958179qaj.285.1295792455629; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 06:20:55 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.175.141 with HTTP; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 06:20:35 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20110123023834.19098.qmail@joyce.lan> References: <20110123023834.19098.qmail@joyce.lan> From: Paul B Mahol Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 15:20:35 +0100 Message-ID: To: John Levine Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing the MAC address on a LAN adapter X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 14:20:57 -0000 On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 3:38 AM, John Levine wrote: > My Lenovo laptop running 8.1 has two ordinary Intel network adapters, > a wired PRO/1000 with the em driver and a WiFi PRO/Wireless 5300 with > the iwn driver. =A0They work fine, but for either one if I use ifconfig > to change the MAC address, the adapter won't actually work until I > change the address back to the native one. =A0Typical symptoms are > endless DHCP queries with no response. > > Is this a known problem? =A0As far as I know, it's supposed to work. How you change MAC address? With "ether" command?