MAC Spoofing / Cloning for WiFi is broken in Trusty 14.04 / 14.10 and all others including Mint 17
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
network-manager (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
wpasupplicant (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
|
Medium
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
**SHORT OVERVIEW**
"Cloned MAC Address" feature doesn't work with any USB WiFi adapters
in 14.04, 14.10, Mint 17 and likely all others based on Ubuntu.
It worked under 13.10 and was broken from day one in 14.04+.
This is not an upgrade issue, i did a clean install to test.
Atheros, Realtek, Ralink adapters tested, this has nothing to do with the driver type.
The only symptoms are WiFi not connecting and the following dmesg output:
[ 214.296350] wlan0: authenticate with 98:fc:11:f2:f7:43
[ 214.305098] wlan0: send auth to 98:fc:11:f2:f7:43 (try 1/3)
[ 214.307421] wlan0: authenticated
[ 219.367559] wlan0: deauthenticating from 98:fc:11:f2:f7:43 by local choice (reason=3)
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**TEMP SOLUTION***
This bug is caused by wpasupplicant (2.1-0ubuntu1.1) in Trusty, network-manager is not the culprit.
I quick fix is to downgrade wpasupplicant to the Saucy version, wpasupplicant (1.0-3ubuntu2). This is relatively easy and doesn't seem to affect anything else.
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Original bug report info:
after setting the mac to change in networkmanager i try to connect yet it never will, when looking at the logs it says it got disconnected by local choice (reason 3), it appeared it was because the mac wasnt effectively changed but then again i tried to do so disabling network-manager -> macchanger -m -> enabling network-manager, i checked with ifconfig if the mac has changed and it did however the result was the same
maybe its because of this http://
**UPDATE**
now works doing the macchanger procedure, directly from network-manager it doesnt
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: ubuntu-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.1
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Mon May 19 02:00:41 2014
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-05-06 (12 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140416.1)
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: ubuntu-
Symptom: release-upgrade
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-05-06 (13 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140416.1)
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion g7 Notebook PC
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: linux (not installed)
ProcFB: 0 VESA VGA
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
ProcVersionSign
RelatedPackageV
linux-
linux-
linux-firmware 1.127.2
RfKill:
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
Tags: trusty
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
_MarkForUpload: True
dmi.bios.date: 10/24/2012
dmi.bios.vendor: Insyde
dmi.bios.version: F.53
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: 3568
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: 21.3A
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnInsyde:
dmi.product.name: HP Pavilion g7 Notebook PC
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
no longer affects: | ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) |
affects: | linux (Ubuntu) → network-manager (Ubuntu) |
description: | updated |
summary: |
- after upgrading to 14.04 wireless mac spoofing wont work + after upgrading to 14.04 (or 14.10) wireless mac spoofing wont work |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
summary: |
- after upgrading to 14.04 (or 14.10) wireless mac spoofing wont work + MAC Spoofing / Cloning broken in 14.04 / 14.10 and all others including + Mint 17 |
summary: |
- MAC Spoofing / Cloning broken in 14.04 / 14.10 and all others including - Mint 17 + MAC Spoofing / Cloning for WiFi is broken in 14.04 / 14.10 and all + others including Mint 17 |
summary: |
- MAC Spoofing / Cloning for WiFi is broken in 14.04 / 14.10 and all - others including Mint 17 + MAC Spoofing / Cloning for WiFi is broken in Trusty 14.04 / 14.10 and + all others including Mint 17 |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in wpasupplicant (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Changed in network-manager (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
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