Hi I didn't have an issue with this -- the Mac address wasn't changing, it was set to the one in /persist/wifi/.macaddr, however I thought I'd change it, so I edited that file, changed it to a new random one and rebooted.
Now I can't connect to any networks. The only difference I found from the suggestions below is that /persist/wifi was 700 and /persist/wifi/.macaddr was (I think) 640 -- I changed these to the more permissive values below, rebooted and still I can't connect to a wifi network. The new Mac address is reported correctly vi /sbin/ifconfig Any suggestions? All the best Chris On Tue 10-Mar-2015 at 05:08:06PM +0100, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > So i got it to work, this is what i did > > In /persist directory create wifi directory. > In the new directory create a file named .macaddr with 12 hex numbers > chown root:root /persist/wifi > chmod 755 /persist/wifi > chown 1010:system /persist/wifi/.macaddr > chmod 664 /persist/wifi/.macaddr > /system/bin/conn_init > > I am not sure all the steps and permissions/owners are needed, but at > least with this it worked, if anyone else has a problem may want to > try this > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Albert Astals Cid > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Anyone has any hint on how to make the Nexus 4 Wifi MAC address be > > always the same? > > > > Here it's changing on every reboot that makes it not reconnect to wifi > > which means i have to retype my password every so often which is not > > ideal. -- Webarchitects Co-operative http://webarchitects.coop/ +44 114 276 9709 @webarchcoop -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
