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In order to get around an issue with Starbucks WIFI someone suggested spoofing my network cards mac address. How do I detect whether the wifi card supports mac address spoofing?

There is material out there on this, but it is very dated. How do you do this on Ubuntu 17.10?

I ended up just running this:

sudo macchanger --mac 00:11:22:33:44:55 wlan0

Use iwconfig to detect the name of your wireless card. Unfortunately this did not resolve the issue with Starbucks WIFI.

Ole
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I'd use Tails if I was worried about revealing my MAC address to a random network. Everything is pretty much done for you and the devs are extremely paranoid (this is not a bad thing obviously). MAC address spoofing is enabled by default upon boot.

This is probably overkill just to spoof in Starbucks however. :)

Sorry I can't help you on how to spoof in Ubuntu as I use Kubuntu, I haven't used Ubuntu since they dropped gnome but there used to be an option in the network device configuration GUI.

Eliah Kagan
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blackcat47
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