Changing the MAC address on a LAN adapter

[Paul B Mahol]

On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 3:38 AM, John Levine <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:
> My Lenovo laptop running 8.1 has two ordinary Intel network adapters,
> a wired PRO/1000 with the em driver and a WiFi PRO/Wireless 5300 with
> the iwn driver.  They work fine, but for either one if I use ifconfig
> to change the MAC address, the adapter won't actually work until I
> change the address back to the native one.  Typical symptoms are
> endless DHCP queries with no response.
>
> Is this a known problem?  As far as I know, it's supposed to work.

How you change MAC address? With "ether" command?