Thank you. I use knetworkmanger, so I don't see the new edit box.
Now I find the MAC reset feature have different effects on a pci card and a
usb card. For the pci card in my T410, the changed mac by udev  won't be
reset, but the mac of a usb card is always reset when plugin. Why there is a
difference ?

The new NetworkManager has implemented MAC spoofing feature just for this
> purpose.
> In connection editor,  on 'Wireless' tab there is a new edit box 'Cloned
> MAC
> address'. If you put your desired MAC here, it will be set on an interface
> when the connection is activated. And you don't need to change your MAC in
> udev or any other way.
> See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447827
>
> Unfortunately, there is still one glitch in wpa_supplicant that causes WPA
> connections don't work. I've sent a patch to hostap mailing list fixing
> that,
> but no reply yet.
>
> As a ugly workaround for this WPA problem, you can do this:
> 1. Make sure you set new MAC to 'Cloned MAC address'
> 2. Leave your changing MAC script code as it is
> 3. And add after your MAC changing code this:
>
> a) the command from Exec= line of /usr/share/dbus-1/system-
> services/fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant.service file
> That is:
> /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -B -u
> -f
> /var/log/wpa_supplicant.log -P /var/run/wpa_supplicant.pid    (for Fedora)
>
> /sbin/wpa_supplicant -u -s    (for Ubuntu)
> This will start wpa_supplicant. (and NetworkManger won't start it again)
>
> b)
> python -c 'import dbus; print
> dbus.SystemBus().call_blocking("fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant",
> "/fi/epitest/hostap/WPASupplicant", "fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant",
> "addInterface", "sa{sv}", ("wlan0", {"driver":"wext"}))'
> This will add an interface to wpa_supplicant and that will read your
> changed
> MAC.
> (That's the D-Bus call that NM makes internally.)
>
> These steps has to be done *before* NetworkManager is started.
>
> Jirka
>
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