Comment 1 for bug 787192

Hello, thanks for this post James. This comes quite handy for me because I'm trying to connect to a WPA protected Wireless Network using this feature also for quite some time and it was not working.

I'm using the latest up to date Ubuntu 11.04 also on a Dell Inspiron R14.

I have also noticed that when changing my MAC address manually in a terminal:

>sudo ifconfig wlan0 down
>sudo ifconfig wlan0 hw ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
>sudo ifconfig wlan0 up

It successfully changes my wireless MAC address as it can be seen by doing:

>ifconfig -a | grep HWaddr

But, when afterward I try to connect to a wireless network with no security (for testing purpose), instead of connecting with the new MAC address I've set, the network manager seems to reset it and connect with the default hardware MAC address of my wireless card.