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Expert: Hrire Mikaelian - 8/31/2008
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Hello,
I purchased an emachine - XP home - desktop computer at Walmart about a year ago for my son.
I have 2 other computers hooked up to a wireless network and have been trying to find the mac address to hook up this last computer to the wireless network.
I was able to find the mac address on the other 2 computers using --- Start (cmd) - when the DOS window pops up I type (ipconfig /all). After I do that it says "ipconfig is not recognized as an internal or external command".
Do you have any other suggestions how I could find the MAC Address?
Answer
Hi James.
You did the right thing, and I'm wondering why it gave that error.
Just to confirm, you spelled IPCONFIG correctly? Try IPCONFIG without the /all option. If it still doesn't work. Try this:
-From the command prompt type cd c:\windows\system32 and press enter
-now, try Ipconfig /all and if that works there must be something wrong in your path statement (it's in a configuration file, although it's not a super major issue).
If this doesn't work,
-go into your Control Panel (Start/settings/control panel), and click on Network Connections
-right click on Wireless Network connection (not the Local area connection), and do a left click on STATUS.
-then, click on the Details button.
-Your Physical Address is the wireless network's MAC address.
I do hope this helped you out!
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