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if you installed a linux distro on a macbook pro, can you change the mac address? (linux.community)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I installed ubuntu xfce 23.04 on a 2014 macbook pro 11.1.

I've been trying to change the mac address with the cli, the same way I do with my main computer (with systemctl, NetworkManager and ip link), but nothing works, even though sudo systemctl status NetworkManager.service shows the NetworkManager as disabled and ip link shows the network's status as down

Bad luck and I cannot change the mac on any macboook?

ETA: on this computer there is a partition with macOS installed. Could this be the reason?

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[–] lurch 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

this is just general info: the other partition can't be the reason, but fixed mac addresses in hardware were the standard decades ago. being able to change them is an optional feature that basucally has become the default nowadays. some hardware is also not able to run in promiscuous mode.

if you try to change the mac address on a device that doesn't support it, it will usually print an error saying so. if you don't see one, also check the kernel message buffer.