Re: MAC adress in Fedora

[Mike Burger <mburger bubbanfriends org>]

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Hans Scheffers wrote:

> Ifconfig as root gives also the mac address 
> -------Oorspronkelijk bericht-------
>  
> Why do you need to know the MAC address of your NIC? Usually it is
> probed by system-config-network.
>  
> Best regards.
>  
> H.T. Petter wrote:
> > Dear people,
> >
> > Since today i am a Fedora-user, so i'm a complete newbie, i only have
> > expierence in Windows XP and Dos.
> > Now, i have succesfully installed Fedora Core 2, but i want to connect
> > it to the network at my campus. To do that, i need the MAC-adress of
> > my NIC. Can anybody help me find this in Fedora? for i have no idea
> > where to look.

You don't need to be logged in as root to get ifconfig to give you the MAC 
address.

-- 
Mike Burger
http://www.bubbanfriends.org

Visit the Dog Pound II BBS
telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org

To be notified of updates to the web site, visit 
http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a 
message to:

site-update-request bubbanfriends org

with a message of: 

subscribe