Hi, is it possible to use MAC filtering with a CnM minibook??
Yes; I do that at home.
There is a MAC address on the underside of the machine but I have tried this but it doesn't seem to work......
cheers...
Phil
The MAC number on the sticker on the machine, is for the wired ethernet NIC only (rather pointlessly). It also rubs off very quickly when the machine is handled.
There are two ways to discover the MAC number of your wifi card:
(1) disable MAC filtering in the router, connect the computer via wifi, and see what new MAC number is logged by the router;
or (2) on the computer, start the wifi card by clicking on the icon on the 'Internet' tab, then minimise the wifi window and then run xterm and enter this command
ifconfig
which will list all the network devices running. The wifi NIC on my machine is 'eth1' (other possibilities are 'wlan0' or 'ath0'). The corresponding 'HWaddr' is the MAC number you want.
You can close the xterm window by hitting Ctrl-d
If you haven't got xterm installed yet, you can get it from <
http://www.cnmlifestyle.com/> - click on the picture of the CnMbook, then on the one for 'CnMbook 7" - Linux', then on 'Downloads' near the top of the page, and scroll down to find 'XTerm' and follow the instructions linked to there.
