Sorry if this has been asked before. I searched here and google but I can't find it.
Before I installed the madwifi driver for my atheros card macchanger worked just fine. But now I get this...
Code:
root@bt4-laptop:~# ifconfig
ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:25:56:0b:22:62
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2542 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1843 errors:0 dropped:23 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1851104 (1.8 MB) TX bytes:324167 (324.1 KB)
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1f:16:d6:43:18
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:26 Base address:0xa000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1200 (1.2 KB) TX bytes:1200 (1.2 KB)
wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-25-56-0B-22-62-30-30-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:33421 errors:0 dropped:257 overruns:0 frame:86
TX packets:20582 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:280
RX bytes:3960679 (3.9 MB) TX bytes:2274908 (2.2 MB)
Interrupt:23
root@bt4-laptop:~# ifconfig ath0 down
root@bt4-laptop:~# macchanger -r ath0
Current MAC: 00:25:56:0b:22:62 (unknown)
ERROR: Can't change MAC: interface up or not permission: Operation not supported