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From: David E. O'Brien <obrien@relay.nuxi.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: etting ethernet address of networkadaptor.
Date: 27 May 1997 06:04:56 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
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> >> I would like to obtain the physical address of the network-adapter.
> >> Does anyone have some code to do this? I had some code for the DEC-Alpha

No coded needed.  After booting, ``dmesg'' will display the probe
messages.  The ethernet address will be shown there.

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-- David    (obrien@NUXI.com  -or-  obrien@FreeBSD.org)