From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 13 10: 4:36 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83FF637B401 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 10:04:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from web11606.mail.yahoo.com (web11606.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.172.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 082CA43F1E for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 10:04:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lic98@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20030113180431.10057.qmail@web11606.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [134.121.119.65] by web11606.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 10:04:31 PST Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 10:04:31 -0800 (PST) From: "James C. Li" Subject: Can't find ethernet (MAC) address To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, My NIC (Linksys LNE100 TX) has worked fine within a Cable modem LAN (with a Linksys router), but since I've moved in to my college dorm, I can't find the MAC address. With ifconfig, I get something like (I can't reproduce it; typing this from a public computer): % ifconfig . . . ether: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff . . . Apparently, the school requires students to register their ethernet (MAC) addresses before their DHCP server leases an IP address. Is there any way for me to get the ethernet address through FreeBSD? BTW: the machine is FreeBSD-4.7 RELEASE Also, could the MAC address by on the card somewhere (if anybody has a similar card)? All I see is some string of numbers like a scan code. Thanks, James __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message