Hi all,

I'm new to NetBSD and recently received *excellent* help from this list 
that saved me from slashing my wrists.  In addition, I received two 
detailed, off-line followup explanations that were both educational and 
encouraging.  I forwarded one of the responses to a friend I was 
evangelizing to NetBSD as another straw to throw on the camel's back as to 
why he should explore the OS.  He just installed it this weekend, BTW, and 
is already thanking me profusely!  ;-)

I am looking forward to the day that I know enough to be as 
helpful/encouraging to someone else, and I thought I might start 
contributing by mentioning that the MAC address can be determined w/NetBSD 
by using the dmesg output.

A quick way would be to type:

dmesg | grep MAC
and
dmesg | grep Ethernet

Funkily, I noticed that one of my NICs referred to it's MAC address with 
the "Ethernet Address" synonym, so you'd need to type both commands to be 
sure you get all adapters.

Alternatively, you could just type:
dmesg | grep address   and throw out the 2 or 3 extraneous entries that 
have nothing to do with NICs.

Hope this is not restating the obvious.  If so, it is merely born out of a 
desire to be helpful!  ;-)

Thanks again for all the wonderful information I've gotten in a *very* 
short time.


At 03:39 PM 11/26/2003 +0000, Gilbert Fernandes wrote:
>On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 03:53:03PM -0600, Chris wrote:
>
> > What does YOU knowing what MY MAC address is
> > do for me? Either there is a fix for this,
> > or not.
>
>You are the one asking for help and you should
>show more kindness to people ready to help you.
>
>Reading what Manuel wrote makes it pretty
>clear the beginning of the MAC address (which
>is the vendor type) is required. There is a
>fix and if you don't feel like helping us on
>your side, then you won't get a fix to your
>problem.
>
> > I don't need an explanation
>
>You do.
>
>You lack etiquette and honestly, if I had
>a fix for you I would not help. Your
>tone is not in synch with the politeness
>we are used to on our mailing-lists.
>
>--
>Gilbert Fernandes