mac addressnetworkingwindows 7
I have purchased a Dell Inspiron N5010 (with Windows 7). It works all fine but I need to know the MAC Address of the Ethernet adapter.
I have tried IPconfig /all, but it does not show my Ethernet adapter. How can I check and confirm my Ethernet card's physical address. I need to use a restricted LAN which requires me to know the physical address of my Ethernet adapter
It's possible your card does not support changing your mac address.
You may also have more luck with a mac address changing utility.
Edit: It seems things are slightly different on Windows 7
(Taken from a forum post);
It seems that the adapter will accept only locally administered MAC addresses as valid (makes sense). This is signified by 7th leftmost bit set to 1, so MAC must start with 02. I changed it without any problems:
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 3:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft Loopback Adapter Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 02-FA-FA-FA-FA-FA Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.1 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
If you try to define it as Globally unique (00), it treats it as invalid and reverts to default:
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 3:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft Loopback Adapter Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 02-00-4C-4F-4F-50 Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.1 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
Best Answer
Unless you have something like Virtualbox installed (which installs its own set of virtual LAN cards), you can try typing
getmacat the command prompt. It should provide you your LAN card's MAC address.If you do have Virtualbox installed, you might consider running
getmac /vinstead for more verbose output. It will list down the connection name associated with the MAC address.