[lug] ifconfig question

[Jose Castilleja]

Davide,

it may not show, if the connection is not active.  It has to at least be 
trying to talk to a DHCP server, even if it doesn´t actually get an IP 
address.  Have you tried just jacking in the cable, and then run ifconfig?

Jose.



On 10/18/2011 10:22 AM, John Hernandez wrote:
> Davide, have you checked 'dmesg' for clues?  That log will often even 
> reveal the HWaddr too.
>
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Davide Del Vento 
> <davide.del.vento at gmail.com <mailto:davide.del.vento at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>     I need my ethernet mac address (security guys need to allow my machine
>     to connect), so I type "ifconfig -a"
>     I expect to find a etho0 with its own HWaddr. Instead, such a
>     thing is missing.
>     There is pan0 and wlan0, which both have a "Link encap" set to
>     Ethernet (aren't they supposed to be bluetooth and 801.something?)
>     with their own HWaddr.
>
>     Now, this is a just installed Ubuntu 10.04 on a brand new Dell, so
>     there might be missing drivers. In fact, the wireless doesn't see any
>     of the several wifi connections I have around (which I can see with
>     another similar, but older machine). Is there such a thing as a
>     Ethernet card driver? If so, how do you break the loop? Am I stuck in
>     an even more serious than this
>     https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/239082 kind of problem?
>
>     Thanks,
>     Davide
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