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[–] LunaCtld@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stupid guess: Maybe the changed mac is written to e.g. an EEPROM and it ran out of write cycles and bugged out then.

[–] railsdev@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s what I was guessing too because I imagine older cards actually kept that in its hardware.

[–] BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah it was an older Win7 system and kinda shit hardware from Acer. Don't think the wifi card was a brand I had ever heard of either.