Hello,

I am using the lastest stable mainline kernel and would like to change my mac address before network-manager is started.

I tried to change the mac address of wlan1 (which is an Edimax usb wifi stick) which works, but wlan0 (Tinkerboard internal wifi chip) gives me the message:

 

Network driver didn't actually change to the new MAC!!

 

Does it have something to do with the drivers used on Armbian?

 

 

I am using

sudo macchanger --mac 02:02:03:04:05:06 wlan0

 

Thanks for help.

Perhaps with UDEV rules?

https://askubuntu.com/questions/81648/how-do-i-change-spoof-my-mac-address-and-easily-switch-between-multiple-ones

 

 

My goal is to clone the SD-card to other tinkerboards. The problem is network-manager writes the settings with the MAC address of the wifi devices into the settings file. The address of the other tinkerboards are of course different. Thats why I am trying to make some fixed address.

 

This guy using C.H.I.P said it is a driver issue. Is C.H.I.P and Tinkerboard using the same wifi chip (RTL8723BS) ? 

 

https://bbs.nextthing.co/t/change-wifi-mac-address/6273/14