Cannot change MAC in Win7 with GN-WI06N-RH (AR5008)

[Guest JamesG]

Hi,

I have an Asus Eee PC901 with Gigabyte GN-WI06N-RH (AR5008 chipset) running Windows 7 RTM. I'm unable to change the MAC of the wireless card.

I've tried changing the MAC using the Network Adapter Properties in Device Manager and also using the SMAC utility. Both methods simply change a registry key, which I've also tried changing manually. Sadly, the MAC address stays at the hardware address.

The driver I'm using is the latest 8.0.0.225. I have the same problem using the original Windows 7 driver.

I can change my LAN MAC address with no problems (also Atheros chipset). When I had WinXP, I could change the MAC of my GN-WI06N-RH.

Can anyone else with an AR5008 chipset card change their MAC in Windows 7 ?

Thanks.

[Guest Vulpix]

Hi,

I have an Asus Eee PC901 with Gigabyte GN-WI06N-RH (AR5008 chipset) running Windows 7 RTM. I'm unable to change the MAC of the wireless card.

I've tried changing the MAC using the Network Adapter Properties in Device Manager and also using the SMAC utility. Both methods simply change a registry key, which I've also tried changing manually. Sadly, the MAC address stays at the hardware address.

The driver I'm using is the latest 8.0.0.225. I have the same problem using the original Windows 7 driver.

I can change my LAN MAC address with no problems (also Atheros chipset). When I had WinXP, I could change the MAC of my GN-WI06N-RH.

Can anyone else with an AR5008 chipset card change their MAC in Windows 7 ?

Thanks.

A little necromancy here but I think many other people may be having the same issue. There's this strange rule about using your own mac address. Basically, the number on the second position of the mac address from the start has to be two.

So the correct mac address for atheros on Win7 looks like this:

X2-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX (replace X with 0-9 or A-F)

I wonder why they implemented this rule...