thanks to ajft on the iFolder-Ubuntu-Debian-Android-dev google group. submitted to https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=614964 Index: simias-1.8.4.0.trunk.7360/src/core/ifdata =================================================================== --- simias-1.8.4.0.trunk.7360.orig/src/core/ifdata 2010-06-16 21:23:51.425392140 -0400 +++ simias-1.8.4.0.trunk.7360/src/core/ifdata 2010-06-16 21:28:45.285397170 -0400 @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ # /sbin/ifconfig | grep 'inet addr' | cut -f2 -d':' | cut -f1 -d' ' #fi ostype=`echo $OSTYPE | awk '/^darwin/ {print "darwin"}'` -if [ "$ostype" == "darwin" ] +if [ "$ostype" = "darwin" ] then /sbin/ifconfig | grep '\' | cut -f2 -d' ' | cut -f1 -d' ' else