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Hello,



Firstly- please excuse my noobishness. I recently got CCT'd, and I'm mostly a lurker so not used to posting on forums in general.



That in mind:



Our institution has decided that, as a fallback, all administrative staff should be able to connect to our network via Ethernet. With that in mind we just bought a whole bunch of USB3 -> Ethernet adapters (we mostly run MacBook Airs).



What I'm wondering: is it possible to get the properly configured adapter settings from one laptop and add it to all administrator laptops via a script? Or something of similar effect? I want to do a touchless install/configuration.



Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks in advance!



The adapter:
- Linksys USB3GIGv1
- Requires a *.pkg install................................................................done
- Requires usual 'Network Preferences' configuration....................TBD (what I'm asking about)

If you can run a script while the NIC to be deployed is plugged into the computer and network, you might be able to get away with with just creating a new location and auto populating it.



#!/bin/bash

/bin/echo "Refreshing network services."

/usr/sbin/networksetup -detectnewhardware

/usr/sbin/networksetup -createlocation Default populate

/usr/sbin/networksetup -switchtolocation Default

/usr/sbin/networksetup -deletelocation Automatic



# Delay and show countdown while letting network regain an IP.

/bin/echo -n "Waiting for network to reconnect...5"; 

/bin/sleep 1; 

/bin/echo -n "...4";

/bin/sleep 1; 

/bin/echo -n "...3";

/bin/sleep 1; 

/bin/echo -n "...2";

/bin/sleep 1; 

/bin/echo "...1";

/bin/sleep 1;

/bin/echo "

Available network services in order of priority:";

/usr/sbin/networksetup -listnetworkserviceorder

joshuasee,



I'll give it a try and get back to you!



Thanks!



EDIT:



Rockin'! It worked.



I ended-up using it with a login hook, so need for the echos (for me).



For anyone else interested, these are the steps I took:




  1. Created policy to install driver via Self Service (requires reboot)

  2. Created policy using above script which is triggered by login. Hardware is powered and plugged-in.

  3. Magic.



Thanks again, joshuasee!

Why would you need to create a new location? Why not just detect the new hardware?

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