Unable to change MAC-address for wireless adapter(s)

[David]

Am having no issues making MAC-address changes to a wired adapter, only to the wireless adapters.

Have replicated problem on two PCs (Ubuntu 13.04, updated as of Sept 5 2013). On both PCs, have tried two wireless adapters, one internal, the other USB. Same result.

On one PC, the internal wireless presents as 'eth1' and the USB as 'wlan0'. On the second, the internal presents as 'wlan0' and the USB as 'wlan1'. But same result.

Problem occurs when using either Macchanger (GNU MAC changer v1.5.0) or "sudo ifconfig wlan0 down / sudo ifconfig wlan0 hw ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx" in Terminal. Macchanger gives error "Can't change MAC: interface up or not permission: Invalid argument", while Terminal gives error "SIOCSIFHWADDR: Invalid argument". Same on both PCs.

I note the similarity to Bug #1180929, reported on on 2013-05-16. Reports also appear in Ubuntu forums at:
 - ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2158910
 - ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2145828

Network-manager version is 0.9.8.0-0ubuntu6

Many thanks.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: gnome-terminal 3.6.1-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-29.42-generic 3.8.13.5
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-29-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.3
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Sep 5 11:08:26 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-08-13 (22 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release i386 (20130424)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[David (david-hudson)]

Could this be moved from gnome-terminal to network-manager? My apologies for misfiling it.

[Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates.

I'm going to close this bug report as their is nothing else we can do with this old report in a now unsupported version of Ubuntu. If you still have this issue on Ubuntu 14.04 or higher, please do reopen or report a new bug.