[PLUG] Identifying MAC for Portable Wireless Radio

Dale Snell ddsnell at frontier.com
Sat Mar 10 18:22:55 UTC 2012


On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 09:43:39 -0800 (PST)
Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

>    How do I identify the MAC for a wireless radio in a portable (or
> other system, for that matter)?
> 

"ifconfig <dev>" will report the HWaddr (i.e., MAC address) for <dev>.

"ip link show dev <dev>" does the same thing, but calls the
address "link/ether".  (See the ip(8) man page.  It's complex.)

Or, if you're using NetworkManager, right-click on the info-tray icon
and select "Connection Information".  That will display info for
whatever interfaces are active.  If the device isn't active, select
"Edit Connections..." instead.  Select the device, click "Edit..." and
select the Wired tab on the edit window.  Viola!

--Dale

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