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Ubuntu 12.10 Modifying a 00:00:00:00:00 MAC Address

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antoniobc
antoniobc Original post #1
Jan 4, 2013 at 7:27 PM
Hi, My Ethernet Card reports a MAC Address of 0. I managed to override this in Windows and get myself connected to the LAN, however in Ubuntu 12.10, Network manager doesn't allow me to save any changes to the connection which has the 0 MAC Address.

What can I do so as to override this mac address of 0 to something more meaningful to the network?