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Find your Mac Address in Ubuntu

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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.

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Comments

18 responses to “Find your Mac Address in Ubuntu”

  1. Greg Avatar
    Greg

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

  2. Márcio Avatar
    Márcio

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

  3. Chris Avatar
    Chris

    Same here, thanks.

  4. Philippe Avatar
    Philippe

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

  5. Derek Avatar
    Derek

    ifconfig
    will give you a HWaddr which is your MAC address

  6. Vasy Avatar
    Vasy

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

  7. Brad Avatar
    Brad

    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 Avatar
    Martin Scott

    Cheers, Mate!
    Greetings from Germany
    Martin

  9. neo Avatar
    neo

    thanks

  10. pinku Avatar
    pinku

    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 Avatar
    Bill Hutchison

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

  12. August Avatar
    August

    Thank you Bill I had the same question ^^

  13. Lilly Avatar
    Lilly

    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 Avatar
    Ever

    Thanks for the info, simple but great

  15. Iru Avatar
    Iru

    Thanx! it was useful

  16. berkturgay Avatar
    berkturgay

    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 Avatar
    Zainuintel

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

  18. Stephen Avatar
    Stephen

    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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