[SOLVED] MAC address of wireless NIC

[wharfhouse]

Hi All!

Just a quickie... how can I easily find the MAC address of my wireless card in PCLOS?  I looked in Control Centre under hardware, network etc... seems to give everything other than the MAC address.

Why I ask?  This is important info when setting up a router to accept specified computers to talk to it; just wanted to know for future reference.  Thanks.

[muungwana]

open the terminal and type "ifconfig"

the MAC address is the number next to "HWaddr"

[wharfhouse]

Thanks Muungwana!

I thought it would be something simple    I did half expect it to be accessible from the desktop  .

Cheers.

[brandoneffecttech]

A good addition to this thread could be how to allow local user to run ifconfig,

I am new to PCLOS, love it, adore it, and have bought a ring, set a date & honeymoon, but the wireless issues, hidden or missing GUIs, incomplete menus, system prefs GUI's not in menus...etc.. have launched a hefty learning curve ( me being a sap who just came the Buntu cloneland )

anyhow,  learning to administer the base system has become pretty frustrating at times, but I'll save that noob whining for another thread


So is there a way for me simply allow my users to run ifconfig without have su- ?

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[bmac@localhost ~]$ ifconfig
bash: ifconfig: command not found

[Just17]

A good addition to this thread could be how to allow local user to run ifconfig,

I am new to PCLOS, love it, adore it, and have bought a ring, set a date & honeymoon, but the wireless issues, hidden or missing GUIs, incomplete menus, system prefs GUI's not in menus...etc.. have launched a hefty learning curve ( me being a sap who just came the Buntu cloneland )

anyhow,  learning to administer the base system has become pretty frustrating at times, but I'll save that noob whining for another thread


So is there a way for me simply allow my users to run ifconfig without have su- ?

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[bmac@localhost ~]$ ifconfig
bash: ifconfig: command not found

Group Membership is one way ........  give your user membership of the group which allows this command to be run-as-user .........  sorry, forgotten which one .....  maybe someone else will comment on that.
This can be done by editing the user account in PCC - System - Manage users on system

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$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:24:19:03:03:05
          inet addr:192.168.3.19  Bcast:192.168.3.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:10417 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:10967 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:4714707 (4.4 MiB)  TX bytes:1537104 (1.4 MiB)
          Interrupt:23 Base address:0x6000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:713 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:713 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:23628 (23.0 KiB)  TX bytes:23628 (23.0 KiB)


[muungwana]

So is there a way for me simply allow my users to run ifconfig without have su- ?

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[bmac@localhost ~]$ ifconfig
bash: ifconfig: command not found

ifconfig runs without needing root's privileges.
what version of pclinuxos are you using?
what is the output of these commands?

which ifconfig
echo $PATH

the problem you have is that you dont seem to have a path to this tool in your "PATH" variable. Some people using some version of pclinuxos have reported problems like you have, problem that originate from a normal user not having paths to system tools in their $PATH variable.