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[Chris Croome <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

I didn't have an issue with this -- the Mac address wasn't changing, it
was set to the one in /persist/wifi/.macaddr, however I thought I'd
change it, so I edited that file, changed it to a new random one and
rebooted.

Now I can't connect to any networks. The only difference I found from
the suggestions below is that /persist/wifi was 700 and
/persist/wifi/.macaddr was (I think) 640 -- I changed these to the more
permissive values below, rebooted and still I can't connect to a wifi
network.

The new Mac address is reported correctly vi /sbin/ifconfig

Any suggestions?

All the best

Chris

On Tue 10-Mar-2015 at 05:08:06PM +0100, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> So i got it to work, this is what i did
> 
> In /persist directory create wifi directory.
> In the new directory create a file named .macaddr with 12 hex numbers
>   chown root:root /persist/wifi
>   chmod 755 /persist/wifi
>   chown 1010:system /persist/wifi/.macaddr
>   chmod 664 /persist/wifi/.macaddr
>   /system/bin/conn_init
> 
> I am not sure all the steps and permissions/owners are needed, but at
> least with this it worked, if anyone else has a problem may want to
> try this
> 
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Albert Astals Cid
> <albert.astals@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Anyone has any hint on how to make the Nexus 4 Wifi MAC address be
> > always the same?
> >
> > Here it's changing on every reboot that makes it not reconnect to wifi
> > which means i have to retype my password every so often which is not
> > ideal.

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