Problems with changing mac-address of Raspberry Pi

Question

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?

Answer 1

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 Let's say you called it mac.sh.

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

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

That's make your script bootable.

4. After rebooting mac will be changed

I got this from internet.

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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