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Find your Mac Address in Ubuntu

April 21st, 2008 by · 18 Comments


Having just starting using Ubuntu I have been needing to do some basic setup options to put my laptop on the network at the office. We use Mac Address based security and so I needed to find mine for the ethernet card.

Looking through all the administration options to find it was unsuccessful and it was definately not as obvious to find as I hoped. After trawling through the Ubuntu Forums and reading about 9 threads I found you simply need to go to Terminal (which is located under Applications>Accessories) and then type in ifconfig and press enter, and you will get a list of your hardware address for your network card.

Tags: Networking · OS & Servers

18 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Greg // Jun 16, 2009 at 2:57 pm

    New to Ubuntu —was searching for the same information. Thank you for sharing.

  • 2 Márcio // Jul 31, 2009 at 11:16 pm

    Thank you. I was searching for the same information, too =)

  • 3 Chris // Nov 2, 2009 at 3:15 am

    Same here, thanks.

  • 4 Philippe // Nov 7, 2009 at 1:37 pm

    Also new to linux. Thank you from France for this information.

  • 5 Derek // Jan 23, 2010 at 12:59 am

    ifconfig
    will give you a HWaddr which is your MAC address

  • 6 Vasy // Apr 5, 2010 at 2:38 pm

    Thanks for the informations. How do I change the MAC address?

  • 7 Brad // Jul 24, 2010 at 4:01 pm

    Your MAC address is hard coded on your wireless card it can’t be changed. but if your using MAC filters on your router you can add this address to your list of allowed wireless cards. Thanks for the info. I guess not everything in Linux is different then windows lol.

  • 8 Martin Scott // Aug 2, 2010 at 1:14 pm

    Cheers, Mate!
    Greetings from Germany
    Martin

  • 9 neo // Aug 31, 2010 at 11:31 am

    thanks

  • 10 pinku // Sep 11, 2010 at 7:55 am

    sir,

    i brought a laptop inspiron4010 and install the ubuntu then i wnt to get wireless connection in my lap. but i cant acces my mac address using ifconfig.
    how to get my mac address in lap?pls rply……

    pinku

  • 11 Bill Hutchison // Nov 1, 2010 at 3:29 pm

    Pinku, in Ubuntu it may be called a HWaddr in ifconfig. Can you find that?

  • 12 August // Feb 13, 2011 at 5:04 pm

    Thank you Bill I had the same question ^^

  • 13 Lilly // May 19, 2011 at 5:30 am

    I want to check my mac address and I have followed the same, but it shows ” command not found ” can u help me.

  • 14 Ever // Jul 21, 2011 at 6:53 am

    Thanks for the info, simple but great

  • 15 Iru // Jul 21, 2011 at 12:38 pm

    Thanx! it was useful

  • 16 berkturgay // Jul 31, 2011 at 3:47 pm

    thank you I was looking for the same thing. I am using Ubuntu in Turkish so I want to write the answer in Turkish too. Uygulamalar> Uçbirim aç?lan pencerede ifconfig yaz?nca ilk ç?kan hardware yazan

  • 17 Zainuintel // Sep 18, 2011 at 4:28 pm

    Thanks very much it worked HWaddr is the MAC ADDRESS ON THE FIRST LINE

  • 18 Stephen // Dec 19, 2011 at 12:25 am

    If you are using Ubuntu, you can find the MAC address by going to the System Settings, and then clicking on the Network folder. Click on the wireless and you will see the MAC address. It will be labeled as Hardware address.

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