scsi050 Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 How can I find the mac addr of my broadcom nic if OSX won't tell me (it's all zeros). I have no other os installed on this computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fgdn17 Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 How can I find the mac addr of my broadcom nic if OSX won't tell me (it's all zeros). I have no other os installed on this computer. http://www.softpedia.com/get/Network-Tools...s/Macadrs.shtml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsi050 Posted December 4, 2007 Author Share Posted December 4, 2007 nice app, but I doubt it will work since osx doesn't know what the mac is either, otherwise when I do an ifconfig, it would tell me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnipinTerminator Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 connet to your router, login your router and you'll see your MAC there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smorf Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 How can I find the mac addr of my broadcom nic if OSX won't tell me (it's all zeros). I have no other os installed on this computer. have you tried "ifconfig" in a terminal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsi050 Posted December 4, 2007 Author Share Posted December 4, 2007 yes, ifconfig gives all zeros. that's is why I need my mac, so I can put it in there to replace the zeros. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsi050 Posted December 5, 2007 Author Share Posted December 5, 2007 Alright, I've found my back by rebooting and doing an F12 right away to do a PXE boot, then pausing it while it finds a dhcp server. It gave me my mac addr. at that point. Now the problem is when I try to input the address (ifconfig en1 ether 00:18:8B:D6:17:DA), I get the message "ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Network is down". When I do an ifconfig en1 up, it acts like it works, but still does not allow me to put in a mac addr. How was everyone else able to get around there 00:00:00:00:00:00 address issue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teknojunkie Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 You can go into system preferences and go into in to network and it should be somewhere in there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsi050 Posted December 5, 2007 Author Share Posted December 5, 2007 the option is there to view it, but not change it. It is either greyed out or does not give me the option to change it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teknojunkie Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 you can try logining to either 109.168.0.1 or 192.168.0.1 on your address bar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fgdn17 Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 nice app, but I doubt it will work since osx doesn't know what the mac is either, otherwise when I do an ifconfig, it would tell me. well if that app. doesn't do....shutdown, pull the board, the MAC is listed on the NIC card....built-in NIC...not sure about that also what does ifconfig -a and/or ifconfig -d tell you??? Alright, I've found my back by rebooting and doing an F12 right away to do a PXE boot, then pausing it while it finds a dhcp server. It gave me my mac addr. at that point. Now the problem is when I try to input the address (ifconfig en1 ether 00:18:8B:D6:17:DA), I get the message "ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Network is down". When I do an ifconfig en1 up, it acts like it works, but still does not allow me to put in a mac addr. How was everyone else able to get around there 00:00:00:00:00:00 address issue? "How was everyone else able to get around there 00:00:00:00:00:00 address issue? "maybe no one else had the issue...!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsi050 Posted December 5, 2007 Author Share Posted December 5, 2007 I have found my mac addr, now I need to get it into osx. When I run the ifconfig en1 ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx, I get "ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Network is down" (see this post: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=74707" I say How was everyone else able to get around there 00:00:00:00:00:00 address issue because I have seen many other threads where they get the nic driver working, but get all zeros for the mac. then they run the ifconfig en1 ether command, put in there MAC addr, and it works. No such luck for me though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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