Re: [gentoo-user] Fake MAC Address Bungling Wireless

[daid kahl <daidxor@gmail.com>]

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2009/2/15 daid kahl <daidxor@gmail.com>

> )On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 20:05 +0900, daid kahl wrote:
>> > I was bored and playing around with macchanger to change my Wireless
>> > MAC address, and wireless has not worked since, even though I'm using
>> > my hardware MAC address again.  I'm usually using NetworkManager, but
>> > I
>>
>>
>> Well, no obvious solutions after 7 hours of actively trying things, so
I'll restore from backup.

For those interested, I deleted files from /var/lib/dhcpbd, and this allowed
me to get new IP addresses, but all within the faulty subdomain of
California.  I tried on another wireless networks, and still my machine
tries to assign me an IP within the California domain.  I reinstalled my
entire networking software (short of a kernel recompile), and deleted and
remade any network configuration files I could find that might be relevant,
and still the problem persisted.   I used wicd to assign myself static IP
and DNS with known values that are functional, and then the network was
recognized, but I could not access anything.

I have a backup of the current system, so if anyone is really really
interested in this subject, I could restore and toy around some more.  But I
have to recommend against using macchanger without a very recent backup of
your system.  I'd file a bug report, but what would I say?  I don't know
what file was actually being affected, so I can't offer any useful insight.

~daid

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