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Old 6th August, 2012, 07:35 AM
Aedan Aedan is offline
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That's a bit weird. The MAC address is normally burnt into the network card.

If you do need to know (and I'm not convinced that you necessarily do), then you can get it from your normal OS. Open a terminal window and type "ifconfig" - you'll get a bunch of stuff, like :

Code:
:~$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0c:29:54:b0:4f
          inet addr:192.168.79.129  Bcast:192.168.79.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe54:b04f/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:51 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:84 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:6585 (6.5 KB)  TX bytes:12983 (12.9 KB)
          Interrupt:19 Base address:0x2024
The thing you're looking for is the hex number after the HWaddr bit. In the case above it would be 00:0c:29:54:b0:4f.
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