On 10/9/04 4:20 PM, "Alex Tweedly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 15:18 09/10/2004 -0500, Ken Ray wrote: >> (Sorry about that last one) >> >> Thanks, Mark... I tried this in my copy of RedHat 9, and I don't get >> anything with "HWaddr" in /sbin/ifconfig. When I looked at Mark Waddingham's >> approach of doing "cat /proc/net/arp", I didn't get anything either. The >> only thing I got with /sbin/ifconfig is the localhost address (127.0.0.1). >> >> So perhaps it's not as universal as we'd think... any suggestions for >> getting MAC address in RedHat 9? > > Stupid question - but are you sure you had an ethernet interface up and > running on the Redhat9 box when you tried this ? Not a stupid question at all... I had a wireless interface set up and assumed that I had already set up the ethernet interface... but apparently I hadn't. So after I set up my ethernet interface, I saw the "HWAddr" that Mark identified. Thanks for the reality check, Alex! :-) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
