If the USB device does not have a specific MAC address on the outside of the device and it is a 'cheap' adapter. It is likely that the mac address is a software programmable MAC address that is assigned by the driver at load. I think these are the worst invention ever created but just like there are software based modems and com ports there are software based network cards. Wd my passport for mac windows driver. Your spoofing command looks correct (provided that your interface is en4) but there is no guarantee that what you are using for an interface or MAC address is valid.

The interface name can be found with ifconfig. It should be en0 unless you have a lot of ethernet interfaces. It is possible that since you are using a non-apple approved driver, it may create the interface with a different name as a reference.

If the USB device does not have a specific MAC address on the outside of the device and it is a 'cheap' adapter. It is likely that the mac address is a software programmable MAC address that is assigned by the driver at load.

Also there are certain requirements for what mac addresses are allowed and what ones are not allowed. Since apple sells their own model for $29. I really do not see the merit in the time and effort involved in trying to do this with a generic adapter. Plus those instructions disable driver signing and malware protection in the mac which is generally under the realm of 'bad idea' unless you are making a hackintosh. If you should decide to use the apple one, you should remove that ktext you downloaded and installed and run 'csrutil enable' to enable the protection mode. And take the mac out of developer mode. If the USB device does not have a specific MAC address on the outside of the device and it is a 'cheap' adapter.

It is likely that the mac address is a software programmable MAC address that is assigned by the driver at load. I think these are the worst invention ever created but just like there are software based modems and com ports there are software based network cards. Your spoofing command looks correct (provided that your interface is en4) but there is no guarantee that what you are using for an interface or MAC address is valid. The interface name can be found with ifconfig. It should be en0 unless you have a lot of ethernet interfaces. It is possible that since you are using a non-apple approved driver, it may create the interface with a different name as a reference. Also there are certain requirements for what mac addresses are allowed and what ones are not allowed.

Since apple sells their own model for $29. I really do not see the merit in the time and effort involved in trying to do this with a generic adapter. Plus those instructions disable driver signing and malware protection in the mac which is generally under the realm of 'bad idea' unless you are making a hackintosh. If you should decide to use the apple one, you should remove that ktext you downloaded and installed and run 'csrutil enable' to enable the protection mode.

And take the mac out of developer mode. If the USB device does not have a specific MAC address on the outside of the device and it is a 'cheap' adapter. It is likely that the mac address is a software programmable MAC address that is assigned by the driver at load. I think these are the worst invention ever created but just like there are software based modems and com ports there are software based network cards. Your spoofing command looks correct (provided that your interface is en4) but there is no guarantee that what you are using for an interface or MAC address is valid.

The interface name can be found with ifconfig. It should be en0 unless you have a lot of ethernet interfaces.

It is possible that since you are using a non-apple approved driver, it may create the interface with a different name as a reference. Also there are certain requirements for what mac addresses are allowed and what ones are not allowed. Since apple sells their own model for $29. I really do not see the merit in the time and effort involved in trying to do this with a generic adapter. Plus those instructions disable driver signing and malware protection in the mac which is generally under the realm of 'bad idea' unless you are making a hackintosh. If you should decide to use the apple one, you should remove that ktext you downloaded and installed and run 'csrutil enable' to enable the protection mode.

And take the mac out of developer mode. Click to expand.Although these particular USB NICs are cheap, the ability to spoof a MAC address has absolutely nothing to do with being cheap. Every NIC is supposed to have a unique MAC Address, but nearly every driver (or LAN device) has the ability to do spoofing these days. Nothing will change the hardware MAC Address, but you can make every device connected to it THINK it's different. In fact, I would argue that you're more likely to find drivers that don't allow spoofing on a cheap NIC. Regardless, I stumbled upon this post because I have the same USB devices with identical MACs.