Determining network adapter MAC address

[2samuel2424]

Hello,

I was wondering if there's a method of determining a systems MAC address if the adapter was inactive. I can find out the MAC address using ifconfig if the adapter is active, but if the adapter is not in use is there a way to determine it's MAC address?

lspci does not give a lot of info, I can't find any info under /proc.

thanks.

[papetova]

You could try:

ifup devicename

then run:

ifconfig

I'm not sure, but I hope, this is what you were looking for.

[2samuel2424]

Thanks for the reply.

Actually, I would like to know if there's a way to determine the MAC address even without enabling the adapter. I'm doing this for inventory purposes where I would like to find out the number of adapters in a box and their MAC addresses.

thanks.

[kalmon]

ifconfig -a

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