How to change MAC address of Dell Inspiron N4010 in ubuntu 10.04LTS?

[Shibbir]

I have a Dell Inspiron N4010 notebook. I've installed ubuntu 10.04LTS along with windows 7. The problem is that i can't find my ethernet device on ubuntu. I need to change the MAC address. In windows 7 i can see and change mac address of my nic card. But in ubuntu i just cannot. I've tried ifconfig command, but that doesn't show my original nic card. Can anyone have a idea please?:confused:

[spikoley]

You need to install macchanger.


sudo apt-get install macchanger

Set a random mac address. Change eth0 to your nic.

sudo macchanger -A eth0


Set a random mac address using the same manufacturer as your nic.

sudo macchanger -a eth0


Set a custom mac address:

sudo macchanger -m XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX

Where XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX is the mac address you want to change it to.