Re: [NTLK] PCMCIA Ethernet card MAC address

From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent.daudelin_at_verizon.net)
Date: Sat Aug 24 2002 - 02:16:37 EDT

on 24/08/02 01:14, Matt Tracey at mtracey_at_telusplanet.net wrote:

> Hi there everybody,
>
> Is there any way to find the MAC address of my ethernet card when it's
> in my Newton? My DSL ISP has this setup where you need to register your
> ethernet card MAC address with them so that the DSL gives you a valid ip
> address (as opposed to the ISP-internal-network-only access that only
> lets you get to the registering site)
>
> I tried getting to the register site with NetHopper but that was a
> no-go. I can get to it using my G4 but I need to know the address of the
> card in order to register it.
>
> Is there software that will display this for me? Any suggestions?

Unfortunately, none that I'm aware of...

-Laurent. 

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