Is it possible to get MAC address if i know serial number of stolen MacBookPro?

I don't understand how the mac address will help you, unless this is an unclever theif and plans to connect to your own router?

I can check my resources tomorrow (if I can remember) to see if Apple logs Mac Address along with Serials, since I can't remember, but I'm not holding too much hope out.

Sorry elene, forgot to check earlier today. I'll try writing it down in my log book an hopefully I don't forgot tomorrow, or the day after....

I'll bookmark this thread for now also.

You have reported the theft to the police, yes?

They are the best ones to try to help you out.

elene**--

Hackintosh is not an official representative of Apple. Far from it.

Please don't wait for any advice from him, as he is often wrong.

Ronda has good advice for you.

elene** wrote:

I'm hoping on unclever thief... this is my last hope 🙂

I need to try everything

Police and Insurance companies are the people to involve, tracing your Mac is extremely unlikely any other way, sorry.

Knowing the MAC address wouldn't enable you to track the machine remotely, because (technically) the address-resolution protocol is not routable. At most, you'd be able to tell whether it was connected to a wireless access point that you control. You wouldn't know whether it was connected to any other access point.

Did some checking today, while it is POSSIBLE to somehow track this information down from a serial, that may take some work and I dont' see that ever happening unless this is some top FBI case or something. It seems even AppleCare doesn't have the resources ATM.

elene** wrote:

Unfortunatelly police is not working properly in my country 😟
thank you everybody for your responce!

Good luck

Hi Elene,

I was wondering if you found a way to find out what the wireless mac address is for your laptop when it is stolen and you didn't write it down?

I hope you found your laptop, my macbook pro recently got stolen and I didn't bother to write down the mac address either, so I am at the same spot you were in back in June. Anyhow, the information people gave you here is wrong. If you found out what the mac address is you can contact my brother at sifurodriguez@gmail.com, he is an RF engineer and can show you how a method to find your laptop but you need the mac address for the wireless card. Anyhow, please let me know if you did find a way to find out what the mac adress is.

Thanks you.

Sorry about your loss.

Did you have iCloud's "Find My Mac" turned on? If so you can goto icloud.com and log in via your Apple ID and track your Mac laptop if the drive hasn't been wiped yet. On your next Mac make sure you turn this feature on as well as setting an admin password for locking the drive (so they can't wipe drive without password).

Do you have access to any ot the routers that you've used your laptop on? You can look at the log files and pull the mac address of the logs if you can remember roughly what day & time you accessed (easier on smaller newtorks). The router does not pass the Mac Address onto the ISP so unless this person uses your stolen computer on the same network (home, business or college) you probably aren't going to catch it.

http://www.ehow.com/how_4586129_track-laptops-_mac-ip-address.html

@sinoue

Hi Sinoue,

I do know the exact dates and times I logged into my router and routers at family member's home. I tried to look at the dhcp table for a list of clients but the routers had refresh by the time I looked. Are there any other logs that are kept permanantly? I mean that keep the mac addresses premanantly of every client that connect to the router? I use a NBG router. If this can be done this would definitely help me find the mac address.

Thank you.