mac address odd 2nd number - error?

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 09:35 -0700, Eugeneapolinary Ju wrote:
> google:
> http://preview.tinyurl.com/mac-change-error
> 
> if I want to change the wlan0 mac address to e.g.:
> 
> 34:41:26:06:66:ac
> 
> I just can't, because it says:
> 
> SIOCSIFHWADDR: Cannot assign requested address
> 
> It gives error if the mac address has odd 2nd character. :D
> 
> ??? I didn't know that every 2nd character can't be an odd number :|
> 
> Why? :D
> 

Why do you want to change the MAC address?  It is generally a bad idea
to do this. For most network devices the MAC is set at the factory and
cannot be changed (easily) for good reason.
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