D620 Broadcom - 2 very good networking questions

[scsi050]

I finally got my latitude to detect my broadcom wired nic (had to use 1600 as the id), but now it gives me the all Zeros for the MAC. Easy fix, but my first questions is:

 

1) but how would I go about finding what my MAC is? Obviously ifconfig doesn't say it, doesn't say it in the bios, dosn't say it on the bottom of the laptop.

 

 

 

second questions:

2)Wireless works great, but doesn't automatically connect to my wireless router after a reboot. It is in the list of preferred networks, but it doesn't automatically connect to it. I think it is because I am not broadcasting my ssid.

 

 

Any comments would be helpful.

[Steve Cody]

I'm replying because I noticed there were no others.

 

If you still need to find your MAC, you can download any linux live distro and boot from it. Then go into a terminal window and run a "ifconfig" or an "ifconfig -a". That will list your interface information, including the Hardware Address aka MAC.

 

Steve

[Bill51]

Or... you can open a Terminal window in OS X, issue the command: ifconfig and read the line for your active connection that begins with " ether: " followed by a series of digits (such as): 00:16:cf:12:8d:1d that should be your MAC address.

[geekdad]

I have a Dell M1530 with a clean install of Kalyway but cannot get wireless to work. If you don't mind sharing how you got the wireless card to work and the ethernet adapter as well? Thanks!

James

[timerace]

Mac OS X : How to Set the MAc Address During Startup

 

Follow these steps to create a script that sets the MAC Address each time the computer restarts:

 

1. Open Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/).

2. Type: cd /Library

3. Press Return.

4. Type: mkdir StartupItems

5. Press Return. (If you encounter an error, continue to step 6.)

6. Type: cd StartupItems

7. Press Return.

8. Type: mkdir MACADD

9. Press Return.

10. Type: cd MACADD

11. Press Return.

12. Type: pico MACADD

13. Press Return.

14. In the pico editor, paste in the following text.

 

Begin copying below this line.

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#!/bin/sh

 

. /etc/rc.common

 

##

# Configure a network interface MAC Address setting

##

#

# This script will set the MAC Address setting for the specified interface(s)

#

# The name of the interface (ex. en0) must be edited to match the interface

# to which the MACADD setting should be applied

#

##

 

StartService ()

{

ConsoleMessage "Configuring MACADD"

 

### uncomment lines and change the value following 'MACADD' as appropriate mac address

 

if [ "${MACADD:=-NO-}" = "-YES-" ]; then

 

# /sbin/ifconfig en0 lladdr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx

# /sbin/ifconfig en1 lladdr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx

 

fi

 

}

 

StopService ()

{

return 0

}

 

RestartService ()

{

return 0

}

 

RunService "$1"

 

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15. Uncomment the /sbin/ifconfig line(s) to set the MACADD for a particular interface.

 

 

Note: Removing the number sign (#) from the beginning of a line uncomments it. Typically, en0 is the interface name for the Built-in Ethernet port and en1 is interface name for the AirPort Card. This is not always the case, though. To confirm that a network port is associated with a particular interface name, open the Network Utility (/Applications/Utilities/), and click the Info tab.

 

 

16. When you have finished customizing the file, save it (press Control-O), press Return, and exit pico (press Control-X).

 

17. Type: chmod 755 MACADD

 

18. Press Return.

 

19. Type: pico StartupParameters.plist

 

20. Press Return.

 

21. In the pico editor paste in the following text.

 

 

Begin copying below this line.

 

 

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>Description</key>

<string>Can set MACADD</string>

<key>OrderPreference</key>

<string>None</string>

<key>Provides</key>

<array>

<string>MACADD</string>

</array>

<key>Requires</key>

<array>

<string>Network Configuration</string>

</array>

</dict>

</plist>

 

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22. When you have finished customizing the file, save it (Control-O), press Return, and exit pico (Control-X).

23. Type: chmod 755 StartupParameters.plist

24. Press Return.

25. Type: sudo pico /etc/hostconfig

26. When prompted, enter your password.

27. Press Return.

28. In the pico editor, add this line at the bottom:

 

MACADD=-YES-

 

29. Save it (Control-O), press Return, and exit pico (Control-X).

 

When you restart the computer, MACADD is set for the interface that you specified.

 

Notes

 

 

1. The MACADD will be reset after changing a Location, waking the computer from sleep, or changing the state of the network interface. To use the script again without having to restart, enter the following command:

 

sudo SystemStarter start MACADD

 

2. If you experience any issues or wish to not set MACADD during startup, you can turn off the new script by changing the MACADD line in /etc/hostconfig to:

 

MACADD=-NO-

[Gujal]

I have a Dell M1530 with a clean install of Kalyway but cannot get wireless to work. If you don't mind sharing how you got the wireless card to work and the ethernet adapter as well? Thanks!

James

 

Dell supplies two kinds of wireless with their laptops, "Intel Centrino" and "Dell Wireless". If you have "Dell Wireless", it works fine with OSX. Intel Centrino is not supported under OSX86 yet.

Also on D620, the built in ethernet card is Broadcom 5752 which currently does not work on OSX (tiger or leopard). All the solutions described in the forums is for 5751 or earlier

[Jai ja]

hi all

 

scsi050 could U tell which are your ethernet card?

 

I'm triyng to get on work a Broadcom Gigabit ethernet 5752 BCM internal card for my laptop Dell Latitude D620 but I can't find how.

 

If U could xplain me please?

 

thaks for all

 

Joan Anton

jantonino40@yahoo.es