How to find out my mac address?

[nzk]

My router is configured to only allow certain mac addressed so I just want to make sure that mine is there.


Will it be the same as the mac address I had when I used windows?

Thanks in advance

[engineer]

yes - mac address is a hardware property.

in general it should be the same for all kinds of operating systems.

i think you can find it out by typing ifconfig.
i can't try it out here, cause i only have windows in office

[h00s]

Mac address is hardware (physical) address of your network card so it's not OS specific.

'ifconfig' will show you mac address, ip address and more.

[cje]

I tried to use ifconfig cmd - but it didn't showed me the address (only lo info) - what did I do wrong?

[eriefisher]

It sounds like your nic is not being detected. In a terminal try typing lspci ansee if it shows up.

eriefisher

[cje]

lspci works fine; the network card shows up

[stef70]

By default, ifconfig does not list the interfaces that are not configured.

To get them all you have to use: ifconfig -a

[cje]

thanks

[johnbl]

Originally Posted by stef70 By default, ifconfig does not list the interfaces that are not configured. To get them all you have to use: ifconfig -a

I'm also at a tad of a loss finding the MAC address. Ispci returns command not found. ifconfig -a details network card but nothing indicatrese as being MAC?

[darrowconley]

I can't find the mac address of my wireless card
I am using a pci card in Edgy.

It comes up as 04:08.4 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) when I type lspci

I cannot see a wlan option in the networking control panel. and when I type ifconfig -a I get eth0, lo and sit0

Any thoughts
I am really new with any OS outside of windows. and the computer I am trying to get working cannot connect to the internet because of above problem.

Thanks
Darrow