shell command to identify wireless printer

[Peter Brigham MD]

On Oct 12, 2010, at 10:17 AM, Mike Bonner wrote:

> Ignore any duplicates that show up, forgot to clean up last message  
> and its
> being held for moderator approval, so don't know if they'll  
> magically appear
> or not. This email is easier to read anyway. I'm actually awake now!
>
> Try this:
>   get shell("cd /usr/sbin;system_profiler SPNetworkDataType |grep -i
> signature")
>   set the itemdel to "="
>   put the last item of it into yourplacetostoreit
>
> It grabs the hardware signature of the router and splits out the  
> last item
> which is the routers mac address. Should be a more reliable method of
> tagging what network you're on. SSID may not be unique since so many  
> people
> never change the default.
>
> This should work for wired or wireless.

Thanks, I'll experiment with that.

> I don't know how likely it is you'll have more than one valid  
> connection at
> a time, if its a possibility for you, might consider testing it to  
> see if it
> contains more than one line.
>
> Also running virtual machines could throw this off I guess, but it  
> shouldn't
> be too bad to get a handle on things.
>
> If nothing else, don't split off the mac address and use the entire  
> result
> as your matching text.  If there IS more than 1 valid result, and  
> you do use
> the entire thing as your match text, also might consider a sort  
> since I
> can't test if system_profiler always lists in the exact same order.

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
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