how to change(spoof) mac address of wifi on Android.

[ashish]

Hi,

I have motorola xt502 (commtiva z71 variant) phone,running CM7.
Ive tried few commands that seem to change the mac-address on some devices like nexus*.
but those commands arent working on my device.
Ive read somewhere that the kernel has to be modified for the mac spoofing to work.. any help to get me started to achieve this spoofing?
Thanks.

[Pavan Savoy]

root users on desktops most often can do
ifconfig wlan0 hw ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx

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[ashish]

my query isnt for desktop but for android..
moreover i have tried commands similar to these,but they didnot work.

[George]

Android version ifconfig do not have hw command. You might need to
update ifconfig and add this command. Anyway, the lower layer is
Linux, it should work.

[t0hitsugu]

The only way ive found to work is chroot into an ubuntu or debian image and apt-get macspoofer...it works with both wireless/gsm on my g2. Dont know bout nexus though :/

[ashish]

@tohitsugu Can you please give a little bit  more details about the process or point me to some resource on this..

Thanks for helping..

[t0hitsugu]

For ease of use, check out backtrack's ARM image (you do need root for this, btw) at backtrack-linux.com. its a rather involved process that basially installs a full linux distro onto a partion on your sdcard. you might want to check out the  macspoofer source and see if you cant cross-compile with ndk, though I imagine the lack of the libc6 library will cause some problems. I cant get into more detail atm, but if you message me later I can provide some more details if youd like

[Pavan Savoy]

On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 12:29 AM, t0hitsugu <tohi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> For ease of use, check out backtrack's ARM image (you do need root for this,
> btw) at backtrack-linux.com. its a rather involved process that basially
> installs a full linux distro onto a partion on your sdcard. you might want
> to check out the  macspoofer source and see if you cant cross-compile with
> ndk, though I imagine the lack of the libc6 library will cause some
> problems. I cant get into more detail atm, but if you message me later I can
> provide some more details if youd like

But shouldn't using the busybox's ifconfig (in case android's ifconfig
doesn't support the command) - be easier ?

> On Sep 16, 2011 10:22 PM, "ashish" <ashis...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> @tohitsugu Can you please give a little bit more details about the process
>> or point me to some resource on this..
>>
>> Thanks for helping..
>>
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[t0hitsugu]

it should. but for some reason it doesnt work on my device. others might have better luck.

[ashish]

exactly... for me aswell the busybox tools dont work. :(