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I want to change the mac address of eth0 of my Raspberry Pi.
I haven't any problems with the wlan0 (macchanger -A wlan0 works)

General information: I have

  • a Raspberry Pi Model B
  • with Arch Linux ARM (archlinux-hf-2013-06-06)

I used

# macchanger -A eth0

and get this result

Current MAC:   b8:27:eb:bc:d5:fd (Raspberry Pi Foundation)
Permanent MAC: 00:00:00:00:00:00 (Xerox Corporation)
[ERROR] Could not change MAC: interface up or insufficient permissions: Device or resource busy

and

# ifconfig eth0 down hw ether 01:02:03:04:05:06

with this error

SIOCSIFHWADDR: Cannot assign requested address

I googled a bit and found this. I think there is someone with the same problem but I can't find a solution.

The question is now: Why i get these error messages (when do macchanger / ifconfig makes such an output?) and maybe what can I do to remove them and finally change the mac address?

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would you prefer a C code to do the MAC setting? –  askmish Jul 31 at 12:11

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Did you forgot sudo? So try sudo macchanger -A eth0 And why you want to change the mac address?

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no i was logged in as root (look at the '#', if you are a normal user you will get a '$') –  Fabian N. Jul 11 '13 at 20:00
    
Ow sorry! I probably looked over it! –  Matthijs Logemann Jul 11 '13 at 21:52
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  1. Write a script

#! /bin/sh ifconfig eth0 down hw ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 ifconfig eth0 up

where "00:00:00:00:00:00" - your mac address Lets say you called it mac.sh.

  1. Put it in the /etc/init.d/ directory. And make this file executable using # chmod +x mac.sh

  2. Then run: # update-rc.d mac.sh defaults

That's make your script bootable.

  1. After rebooting mac will be changed

I got this from internet.

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Just add smsc95xx.macaddr=00:00:00:00:00:00 to /boot/cmdline.txt.

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