How to Obtain a Wireless and Wired MAC Address in Mac OS X

Overview

This document contains instructions for how to find the wireless and wired Machine Address Code (MAC address) for the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.6/10.7/10.8/10.9/10.10

Overall, the instructions are divided into sections for:

 

Instructions

Wireless MAC Address

  1. Click on the Wifi symbol and select Open Network Preferences....

Wi-Fi symbol
 

Click on "Open Network Preferences" after clicking on the "Wi-Fi Symbol"

 

  1. Select Wi-Fi (or Airport in Mac OS X 10.6) from the left panel. Then, click Advanced in the bottom right hand corner.
     

image showing to click on "Wi-fi" and then "Advanced"

 

  1. Select the Wi-Fi tab. The MAC address will be listed as the Wi-Fi Address.
     

Image showing to click on "Wi-Fi" tab and click on "Wi-Fi Address"

 

Wired MAC Address

Mac OS X 10.6

  1. Go to Apple Menu >> System Preferences.

image showing System Preferences

  1. Click Network at the top portion of the window.

image showing "Network" of the system preferences window

  1. Click Ethernet on the left. Click the Advanced button.

image showing Ethernet -> Advanced in network settings

  1. Click the Ethernet tab and the MAC address will be listed as 'Ethernet ID'.

image showing MAC Address listed as Ethernet ID

 

Mac OS X 10.7/10.8/10.9 

  1. Go to Apple Menu >> System Preferences.

image showing System Preferences inside the Apple Menu

  1. Click Network at the top portion of the window.

image showing Network inside System Preferences

  1. Click Ethernet on the left. Then, click the Advanced button.

image showing Ethernet -> Advanced under Network

  1. Click the Hardware tab and the MAC address will be the first piece of information listed.

image showing Hardware -> MAC Address

 The MAC address will be in the following format: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx.

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