Changing MAC address on Mac OS X 10.9.2.

[linhdh]

Hello all,

 

I want to change mac address of wifi card of my Macbook air 11.6" version 2013 which has already updated to use mac os x 10.9.2.

Firstly, i used the command:

 

sudo ifconfig en0 ether <my new mac address>

 

en0 is my wifi card. But i think it didn't work.

 

When i used command

 

ifconfig en0

 

i could see that mac address of en0 changed to <my new mac address> but Wi-Fi address showed on Network Preferences > Advanced > Wi-fi is still the origin mac address of my Wi-Fi card.

 

Do you know anyway to know for sure what is the current mac address of your wifi card?

 

After that i tried to port some code of Macchanger from GNU (http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/macchanger/) to my mac so that i could try to change mac address with this software (it basically use ioctl to change mac address). I could make it run but i fear that may damage my hardware. I'm very new to mac and linux development.

 

Do you know how to change mac address programmatically for mac os x 10.9.2?

 

Do you know anyway which differ from my ways to change mac address for my wifi card on Mac os x 10.9.2?

 

Thank you for reading.

Any response will be appreciated.

[Slice]

Mac is not a Linux and this methods will not work.
Mac-address for a LAN card got from the driver by calling a method getHardwareAddress[/size]
For example a part of Realtek LAN driver

IOReturn RealtekR1000::getHardwareAddress(IOEthernetAddress *addr)
{
	//DLog("getHardwareAddress\n");

	if (!board_inited)
		return kIOReturnNotReady;
	
	for (uchar i = 0; i < ETHER_ADDR_LEN ; i++)
	{
		addr->bytes[i] = ReadMMIO8(MAC0 + i);
	}
	return kIOReturnSuccess;
}

I can rewrite this driver to make new address but this is only for this driver.