[Q] Two KF2's with same MAC address

[texraid]

Hello, I tried to post this in the CM10 thread in the KF2 development forum but it didn't let me.

OK, here goes, I ended up buying two used kindle fire 2's for my young kids on ebay since they were real cheap, anyway, I also rooted them and installed the CM10.1/sgt7 Rom on them and it was all relatively easy to do and painless. So I was really happy with the way things were going and really happy with the way this rom runs on my kids KF2's, then after installing the rom, I realized that they were having wifi issues when I started installing their game apps from the Play Store. I looked at the IP's and they matched each other, so I manually changed them. Everything went back to normal for a few minutes, and wham the wifi issues came back. I decided to look at their MAC addresses and sure enough they are exactly the same.

I looked up the forums and found this problem on a few other devices as well as the first generation KF, but I don't see people with the same problem here. I did do backups of my kids KF2's before I installed the new rom, but I'm hoping someone can help me to change the MAC addresses back to their original MAC addresses because I really don't want their KF2's to go back to the stock rom and neither do my kids. They love my Nexus 7 and like how their new KF2s perform just like my N7, so please help us.

Oh yes, I also tried the MAC spoofing apps on the Play store and they didn't work, not sure why?
Thanks in advance.

 

[fmkilo]

Hello, I tried to post this in the CM10 thread in the KF2 development forum but it didn't let me.

OK, here goes, I ended up buying two used kindle fire 2's for my young kids on ebay since they were real cheap, anyway, I also rooted them and installed the CM10.1/sgt7 Rom on them and it was all relatively easy to do and painless. So I was really happy with the way things were going and really happy with the way this rom runs on my kids KF2's, then after installing the rom, I realized that they were having wifi issues when I started installing their game apps from the Play Store. I looked at the IP's and they matched each other, so I manually changed them. Everything went back to normal for a few minutes, and wham the wifi issues came back. I decided to look at their MAC addresses and sure enough they are exactly the same.

I looked up the forums and found this problem on a few other devices as well as the first generation KF, but I don't see people with the same problem here. I did do backups of my kids KF2's before I installed the new rom, but I'm hoping someone can help me to change the MAC addresses back to their original MAC addresses because I really don't want their KF2's to go back to the stock rom and neither do my kids. They love my Nexus 7 and like how their new KF2s perform just like my N7, so please help us.

Oh yes, I also tried the MAC spoofing apps on the Play store and they didn't work, not sure why?
Thanks in advance.

I'm pretty sure this is a kernel issue, and Hashcode just needs to find where the mac address is stored in the idme partition of the mmc. Nobody knows how long, but when I see him, I'll ask him.

 

[texraid]

I'm pretty sure this is a kernel issue, and Hashcode just needs to find where the mac address is stored in the idme partition of the mmc. Nobody knows how long, but when I see him, I'll ask him.

OK great, thanks for the response. I thought it was a problem with the kernel as other people reported the same thing in other devices. I saw how some people were fixing this same issue on the first generation KF and I thought maybe the same thing can be done with the KF2 but the files that were used were different than whats in my KF2s.

I think I'll just reverse back to the stock Rom on one of the KF2s, till this issue gets fixed or a workaround can be found.