mac address change fails

[matttah]

I'm trying to change the mac address on my wireless NIC however when i do

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$ ifconfig eth1 down hw ether 11:22:33:44:55
SIOCSIFHWADDR: Too many open files in system

I tried installed macchanger too and it has the same problems. I even tried putting mac_eth1 in my conf.d for net and it fails too. Any ideas how to fix this? This is on a bcm4315 wireless nic.

Thanks,
Daum

[Marq]

Have you tried to change MAC with ip command?

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ip link set eth1 address 00:11:22:33:44:55

[matttah]

yep also tried that then i get the error: RTNETLINK answers: too many open files in system