pwhilton Posted March 10, 2004 Report Share Posted March 10, 2004 As a new user of Mandrake 9.2 how do i find the mac address of my network card to inform my cable modem company. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted March 10, 2004 Report Share Posted March 10, 2004 (edited) open a terminal su to root run ifconfig i believe it's the line that starts w/something like: HWADDRESS: but i'm not at a linux box and can't check right now... (p.s.-whatever you do, don't tell you cable company you're using linux, they will thereafter blame it all on linux becauses they're ignorant...) Edited March 10, 2004 by tyme Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred_the_fish Posted March 10, 2004 Report Share Posted March 10, 2004 Telewest in the UK infact have as a company policy that they can not install broadband services to non microsoft operating systems. One of my friends works for them... he tells me its because their engineers (that is "software engineers") do not understand linux! LIKE WTF??? I'm doing a software engineering degree... how you coulld become a software engineer without having to gain at least partiial knoweldge in linux / unix is beyond me! As for the MAC... yes... do as... $ su -Password: [root@pctrefjrg9 root]# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:8D:3A:1A:98 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
healingbear Posted March 11, 2004 Report Share Posted March 11, 2004 Cnet has a Bandwith Meter Test ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzatch Posted March 12, 2004 Report Share Posted March 12, 2004 That is one screwed up test meter. Take the test a few times and you'll get a different speed everytime. I just kept hitting the back button untill I hit 255000.0 kbps Now thats speed!!!. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted March 12, 2004 Report Share Posted March 12, 2004 That is one screwed up test meter. Take the test a few times and you'll get a different speed everytime. I just kept hitting the back button untill I hit 255000.0 kbps Now thats speed!!!. Any bandwidth speedtest gets screwy when you hit the 'Back' button. You are resending data from your cache which has already been sent, so one could easily 'get' a near-infinite bandwidth speed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
healingbear Posted March 17, 2004 Report Share Posted March 17, 2004 Cnet has a Bandwith Meter Test ... About this test, if you do not have a clean cache, you will not get accurate test results... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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