ahemsa Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 This should be extremely easy but I'm getting very frustrated so I figured it was time to ask the experts. This week i decided to try 10.5.2 using the Kalyway DVD on a GX620. Everything worked great except for USB drives and Ethernet MAC. The USB was solved completely by following this thread, http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...=95789&st=0 Thanks to the advice of this forum! The ethernet MAC problem I was able to solve by using a modified version of the instructions found here: http://www.gizmolabs.org/~ecronin/w/Main/OSXSetMac The only difference was that for some reason I could never get the setmac.sh to execute properly so I had to strip it of everything but a single line: /sbin/ifconfig en0 lladdr de:ad:be:ef:ca:fe And this worked great, it solved all of my connectivity problems. With these two problems resolved I decided I would try to put it on my main GX620 which has an Nvidia 8800 GTS graphics card, 2 more hard drives, more RAM, and a bigger power supply to push it all. I installed the OS using the same DVD the same way, I just made sure to use NVinject to get the graphics card working. As expected everything went fine, the only things that don't work are the Ethernet and USB. Once again the USB worked easily. The ethernet, on the other hand is giving me a bunch of trouble. I tried just copying the files from my other Mac clone but I got a dubious persmissions error when it tried to execute them. I deleted them and started from scratch. This time they executed but I get an error "network is down" when it tries to run ifconfig, and thus it doesn't change the MAC address. I assume this is where the while loop is supposed to come in. I modified setmac.sh to look exactly like the instructions on the website but now at boot, or if I try to execute setmac.sh manually, I get: Changine built-in ethernet MAC setmac.sh: line6: [: missing `]' Could somebody please tell me what this means, or tell me a different way to set the MAC address automatically at bootup on 10.5.2 The command works great if I run it from the terminal, but it's irritating to have to do that every time I reboot. Thanks in advance! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102460-autoset-mac-at-login-this-shouldnt-be-that-hard/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahemsa Posted May 1, 2008 Author Share Posted May 1, 2008 A co-worker was able to give me a different script that worked, using a different type of loop. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102460-autoset-mac-at-login-this-shouldnt-be-that-hard/#findComment-731690 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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