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The MAC address for Wake-on-LAN is needed for the sleeping Mac. Not unless you are trying to wake up your Macbook Air, you do not need its MAC address. If you have multiple Ethernet ports (or adapters), each will have its own unique MAC address. The MAC address is NOT part of the Thunderbolt bus, nor the USB bus. BUT if you get an Ethernet adapter (USB or Thunderbolt), then the adapter has an Ethernet chip in it, and that will have a MAC address. Since your Macbook Air does not have Ethernet, it does not have an Ethernet MAC address. The MAC address is part of the Ethernet chip. As it happens, I just found out that a Thunderbolt to Ethernet cable/adapter will have it's own MAC address, so unless you plug in such an adapter, the MB Air won't have a "wired" ethernet MAC address for WOL. But given there is the Thunderbolt option for ethernet, I wondered if there were some kind of Thunderbolt ethernet MAC address. So no wired ethernet MAC address that could be used for traditional WOL. I was just wondering if the MB Air has a hard-wired (ethernet) MAC address, but of course it has no ethernet port nor the card for it. Hey BDAqua, that's the wifi adapter's MAC address, not a wired ethernet MAC address. Which will list ALL the available devices on the home LAN, such that you do NOT need to know the MAC address.Īnd there are a bunch of "Wake on LAN" apps for the iPhone, many I'm sure do not need to know the MAC address either. If you are on the same LAN as the Mac mini, you can use apps such as WakeOnLan for the Mac
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I think an Apple TV will also provide a Bonjour Sleep Proxy service.īut you DO NOT need to use a Bonjour Sleep Proxy. And if the Bonjour Sleep Proxy is your home router, then the request can come from the internet, such as Back-to-My-Mac connection requests. A Bonjour Sleep Proxy just makes it easier for the client to wake the Mac as all the client has to do is try to access one of the services being proxied, and the Bonjour Sleep Proxy will send the necessary Wake-on-LAN packets to the sleeping Mac. You do not have to have a Bonjour Sleep Proxy to wake a sleeping Mac. I've set the Mini to wake on lan in energy saver prefs. I'm sure both machines are on the same network. I have the correct MAC address and IP address (I've reserved a local IP address for it). I've tried Wake on Lan and other tools to wake it up remotely so I can then start playing music, but I can't get it to wake up. Trouble is, I can't get the Mini to wake up. I want to let the Mini sleep when not needed, then wake when I want it for music. I want to run this without a monitor or keyboard, and rely on my iPhone or MBAir to control the Mini via screen sharing. The Mini is connected to a DAC by USB, and that is connected to the audio system. The mini is on a LAN using a Netgear router and is only connected via wifi.
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I can upgrade it to Snow Leopard (possibly Lion/10.7 if I upgrade memory, which I may do anyway). The Mini is a core 2 duo with 1GB RAM from 2009 I think.
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I'm trying to set up a Mini as a music server for my audio system. Not sure where to best post this, but here goes.