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Kong76 Mar 26 2009 07:53 AM

How do you find the MAC Address of the wireless network card on Macbook? On a PC, I'd get all geeky and open a dos prompt and type 'ipconfig /all' and find it listed with a bunch of other info. Is there a similar trick on an Apple?

RealityChuck Mar 26 2009 02:27 PM

IIRC, it's under System Information, Network settings (or something similar). There's dropdown for the network card and it gives the MAC address.

Kong76 Mar 26 2009 02:56 PM

Thanks, I'll put that with my work computer notes. This morning was the second time that someone's kid (someone important) came to me and wanted to use their Macbook on our network and among other wireless security thingies MAC authentication is one of them. I got him on a residential linksys signal and he was happy but complained that it wasn't as fast as home lol.

A Boy Named Seo Mar 26 2009 07:14 PM

You should be able to get all geeky on a Macbook, too. Open your shell and type 'ifconfig -a' or '/sbin/ifconfig -a' (not sure the path for ifconfig in FreeBSD). You should get all the same junk you'd expect to see in Windows.

Kong76 Mar 26 2009 07:38 PM

Seo: Open your shell and type <<< I really have never even been on an Apple computer but maybe three times. It was kinda funny this kid standing in my office and I couldn't close a window and I asked him how and he looked at me like, "why did Dad send me to see you for help" in a funny 8 year-old kid way. Nevermind trying to explain that a password isn't all he needs but that I have to get some numbers and letters off his computer and put them somewhere else so his computer will do what he wants NOW!!!

A Boy Named Seo Mar 27 2009 07:51 AM

Funny. Yeah, I don't think I could tell you how to find the shell, only what to do once you're there. I was helping Opera Singer w/ something once on hers, and it took me 10 or so minutes to find the stupid shell and she looked at me a lot like that kid did looked at you.