Intel Utilities For Mac
Another utility I use with iTunes is Airfoil Speakers, part of Airfoil. Airfoil is designed to let you stream audio from a Mac to all sorts of devices, and it is an essential tool for doing this task.
You probably already know that each network interface card (NIC) on a network must have a media access control (MAC) address. Each address must be unique to the network, and should be globally unique. However, you might have the need to change the MAC address on a system. Here’s how to do it when you’re running Windows with an Intel Ethernet NIC.
- It’s a handy utility for many reasons, and some Mac users may even use it as an alternative system monitor sort of like Activity Monitor. Newer versions of MacOS can sometimes have trouble installing Intel Power Gadget, and many MacOS Mojave users have discovered the installation fails or the app doesn’t work.
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Steps to Change the MAC Address
The steps assume that you’ve already installed the Intel PROSet drivers for your Ethernet NIC. If you’ve not yet done that, you can get the driver installer package from Intel® Download Center.
Open Control Panel, then click on Network and Sharing Center.
In the Network and Sharing Center windows, click on Change Adapter Settings in the left pane. This displays the Network Connections list as shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1. The list of physical and virtual network adapters.
Right-click on the connection that you want to change and then click Properties to bring up the network connection properties as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2. The network connection properties.
You want to manage the properties of the NIC itself, not protocol properties like TCP/IP or NetBIOS. To manage NIC properties, click the Configure… button directly under the adapter name. This will bring up the NIC properties as shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3. The network adapter properties.
Did you notice that there are more tabs along the top of this dialog box than other network adapters? That’s the Intel PROSet drivers in action. They expose many more configuration options than the typical drivers.
To change the MAC address, first click the Advanced tab, and under Settings click Locally Administered Address. This allows you to specify a new MAC address as shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4. Setting the new MAC address.
In this example, I’m setting the MAC address for this NIC to DE:AD:BE:EF:CA:FE. That should be easy for me to remember and verify, as I’m a carnivore. Then I click OK to apply the change. The network connection will be down for a moment while it restarts with the new MAC address.
Finally, to verify the change was made I’ll use getmac.exe.
Figure 5. Success! The MAC address has indeed changed.
There you go. The MAC address is verified as DE:AD:BE:EF:CA:FE or DE-AD-BE-EF-CA-FE or DEADBEEFCAFE (depending on which tool you use to view it).
Enjoy!
Mike Danseglio -CISSP / MCSE / CEH
Interface Technical Training – Technical Director and Instructor
Mike Danseglio teaches Security classes at Interface Technical Training. His classes can be attended in Phoenix, Arizona or online from anywhere in the world with RemoteLive.
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CategoryDisk Utilities For Mac
Windows 7, Windows 8
TagsChanging MAC Addresses, Ethernet NIC, Intel Download Center, Intel Drivers, MAC address, MAC Address Intel Drivers, Network and Sharing Center, NIC, PROSet, TCP/IP
Supported Projector (MODEL NO.)
- NP-PX750U / NP-PX700W / NP-PX800X
- NP-PH1000U
- NP-PA600X / NP-PA500X / NP-PA550W / NP-PA500U
- NP-P420X / NP-P350X / NP-P350W
- LT265 / LT245 ( Firmware version : 1.04 or later )
- LT380 / LT280
- NP3250 / NP3250W / NP2250 / NP1250 / NP3151W / NP3150 / NP2150 / NP1150 / NP2000 / NP1000 / NP905 / NP901W
- VT800 *
- WT615 / WT610 ( Firmware version : 1.08 or later )
When using Image Express Utility 2 for Mac OS, upgrade the firmware of the projector to the specified version or later beforehand.
- *The 'Easy Connection' function cannot be used with VT800.
Operating Environment
| Processor (CPU) | Intel CoreSolo 1.5 GHz processor required When using the models with Power PC Chips,download here. |
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| Memory | 256 MB or higher recommended |
| Supported OS | Mac OS X 10.4(*) / 10.5 / 10.6 / 10.7 * 10.4.4 (Intel) or later required |
| Network Environment | Wired or wireless LAN required that supports TCP/IP. Only the AirPort and AirPort Extreme wireless LAN cards are guaranteed to work with Image Express Utility 2 for Mac OS. ' Easy Connection ' supports only AirPort and AirPort Extreme. |
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