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Greetings all, I just finished the process of creating a tutorial on how to find the hardware address on a Mac for where I work. Well while patting myself on the back someone notified me that my tutorial did work. That is it only worked for OS X 10.3, and not for any version below that. Well since I don't know anyone that hasn't upgraded to Panther I'm asking if anyone here with any version of OS X that is under 10.3 would send me some screenshots on how to identify the hardware address on a Mac? Below is a link of the tutorial I created for Panther. I would like to follow the same flow though image tutorial that I have already done. Thanks.

Hardware Address Detection for OS X

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that video link in the other thread would work on any flavour of OS X (the default shell is TCSH rather than Bash, but the command is identical).

EDIT: and yes I was being sarcastic, I realize people who have a hard time navigating the network panel are probably not going to be comfortable using the terminal.

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that video link in the other thread would work on any flavour of OS X (the default shell is TCSH rather than Bash, but the command is identical).

EDIT: and yes I was being sarcastic, I realize people who have a hard time navigating the network panel are probably not going to be comfortable using the terminal.

With your permission I would definitely like to use it as another option to get the hardware address for those who use the terminal a lot, or are familiar with it. However I also have to have the option for those who are not comfortable with it, or still don't know it exists.

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Go ahead: it's not like that took any real effort or has some secret information :)

As long as you're looking for simple ways to do it, here's another one. A 5 second application I wrote for shoots-n-giggles.

set ethernetAddress to (do shell script "ifconfig en0 | grep ether | sed s/ether//")
display dialog "The hardware address is:" & ethernetAddress

AppleScript is really under-rated. I'm fairly sure this will also work on any version of os x.

The only reason I zipped it up is because I'm not sure the forum won't destroy it otherwise.

EDIT: I changed it to use "en0" - on a mac that should be the built-in ethernet, I used en1 originally (typically airport). Updated the attachment accordingly.

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Go ahead: it's not like that took any real effort or has some secret information :)

As long as you're looking for simple ways to do it, here's another one.  A 5 second application I wrote for shoots-n-giggles.

set ethernetAddress to (do shell script "ifconfig en1 | grep ether | sed s/ether//")
display dialog "The hardware address is:" & ethernetAddress

AppleScript is really under-rated.  I'm fairly sure this will also work on any version of os x.

The only reason I zipped it up is because I'm not sure the forum won't destroy it otherwise.

I'll have to try it on a Mac when I go to work Monday.

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Now that I think about it. AppleScript is standard issue on (nearest i can guestimate) every macintosh system produced in the last decade. Maybe we (as a community) should bash out some scripts that perform those simple tasks that we get asked about here:

- share a folder using SMB

- delete broken preferences

- display uptime

I can't really think of anything else this late but I think you get the idea.

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