How to spoof a mac address?

[ptpeetee]

At work we have wifi, but it's limited to the MAC addresses of the laptops that have been handed out. Is there any way to spoof the mac address on my phone to match that of my laptop (which would be switched off at the time) ?

Thanks,

[Registerme]

I haven't heard of any way to do that for pocketpcs. Why don't you use smac on your laptop and change the laptop's mac to your current pda's mac adress? And you need administrative rights or an admin that will to let you do this / change your laptop's mac in the system database or whatever.

[ptpeetee]

No go on that I'm afraid. It's my IT department that controls the issuance of laptops and the same people that lock down the wifi access by mac address. They'd notice a mac address that doesn't belong because we only use Thinkpads.

[Registerme]

Well I was interested in that too but when I didn't need it anymore I stopped searching. If you search a lot you might find a working solution, take a look there if you have a ee-subscription (I don't) http://www.experts-exchange.com/Networking/Microsoft_Network/Q_21206803.html

or take a look at the netstumbler forum or the efnet channel. I will do a little research too. I think the mac adress can probably be changed through the registry settings, some cards support that.

[triplejay]

there were some old threads somewhere here on xda about it,

Now, I don't remember the details, but I'm pretty sure someone managed it, but only with some badass coding, instructions for which were way above my head. Check the old threads in networking sub-forum...