cannot set random mac address for TL-WN722N dongle

wraith-wireless / PyRIC

Python wireless library for Linux

http://wraith-wireless.github.io/PyRIC

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Open anakin1028 opened 7 years ago

anakin1028 commented 7 years ago

Hi wraith-wireless,

Recently I try to use the function macset in my python program; however when I use it, and it throws the following exception:

It seems that the ioctl function raise an IOException.

The following snapshot is set by macchanger, and it set the MAC address successfully.

To be more specifically the following is the commands I use in the interactive-Python:

Can you help to see this issue? Thanks!

anakin1028 commented 7 years ago

hi, after doing some experiments, it seems that for pyric we can only change mac address when device in managed mode, but not in monitor mode.