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How to change a wlan0 mac address?
I bought the Miniature WiFi Module from ADAFruit (http://www.adafruit.com/products/814) and was wondering if it is possible to change the MAC address associated with it. I have tried using the following code:
sudo ifdown wlan0
sudo ifconfig wlan0…

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Cannot connect to RasPi by SSH with WiFi interface only
I'm observing really annoying issues with connectivity to RasPi on WiFi network. I have device connected on both LAN cable and WiFi. If both cable and WiFi dongle are plugged - both interfaces are working fine and I'm able to connect to RasPi…

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What is the highest voltage from the power supply a Raspberry Pi 3 B can handle without getting damaged?
I am using Android things on Raspberry Pi 3 B with a 7-inch touch screen. Currently, I always see a yellow thunder bolt sign on the screen which means that the Raspberry Pi isn't receiving a high enough voltage from my 5.3 V 2 A power…

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Why is grub incompatible with the raspberry pi?... Answer - It's not
I've read numerous times that the raspberry pi doesn't support grub. I've not been able to find any specifics about the incompatibility. I've only found rather blunt statements of the form "it's not supported".
I would like to understand exactly…

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Using the Pi as a kiosk OR how to get VNC on Pi
I would like to run the Pi as a kiosk that many people can use. The Pi is not quite powerful enough to run the application that I would like. Is there a way to use the Pi just as a display and to have all the computation done on a server?
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Can a Pi be used as an OpenCL CPU device?
Can I use a Pi (or, for that matter, Beagle Bone or Arduino) as an OpenCL CPU device? I understand there isn't much of a GPGPU thing on a Pi, but couldn't I link a bunch together under an OpenCL framework and do something cool and flexible with…

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I have a 16 GB SD card that is now only 55 MB. How do I get 15.945 GB back?
I have a 16 GB SD card for my Raspberry Pi that is now only 55 MB. How do I get 15.945 GB back using Windows 7?
This worked on the 55 MB only:
How can I reformat my SD card to use it normally again?

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Lxpanel using 100% CPU (1 core)
On my Raspbian 2018-11-13 installation with all updates (sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade), I see the CPU graph in the task bar (top right corner) at constant 25%.
I opened a terminal and used top to have a look at the process list and…

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I accidently deleted my taskbar - how do I get it back?
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I recently was messing around with my Pi when I accidentally deleted the taskbar. I cannot figure out how to bring it back.
I was on the desktop when I highlighted two icons on the left side of the taskbar, one…

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How do I get the data from the serial port?
I have a Ciseco XRF radio module and a Slice of Pi expansion board.
Using the program 'screen' works fine; I can see data being transmitted to the XRF module.
How do I get the data from the serial port, so I can do some processing on it? I tried…

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Adding a second Ethernet port
I would like to start a "Firewall" project. This will require intercepting data on the network processing it and passing it on it way.
Has anyone tried (or theorised) how to add a second Ethernet port to the Model B?
Possible Solutions
USB…

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How to change focus on Raspberry Pi camera?
I'm having trouble getting the camera to loosen. I need to change the focus so I can attach an external wide angle lens to remove the blurriness. However, no amount of prodding seems to work. Has anyone done this and how did you do it?

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Resize file system on OpenELEC
I was trying to perform an update and an error told me that I hadn't enough free space. So I connected to my Raspberry through SSH to ask for disk usage with:
df -h
And I obtained the following result:
Filesystem Size Used…

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How to mount Time Capsule from Raspberry Pi
There is a 2TB Time Capsule on my home network (IP 192.168.0.1). How can I mount the Time Capsule's disk from my Raspberry Pi, automatically after reboots?

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What type of micro-USB is used?
From previous experience I've discovered there are quite a few different types of micro-USB connectors.
Here are three main ones:
I'm pretty sure it's not the middle one; and I think it's the left one, but better safe than sorry.
So is it the one I…

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