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Find your computer's Hardware Address

CFA Faculty, Staff, Academic Professionals, and Administrators: Contact Cynthia or Joe for assistance connecting your office computer or laptop to the wireless network.

CFA Students: The College of Fine Arts offers limited wireless access to CFA students. Our current coverage area includes spaces in all buildings of the Fine Arts Complex except the Music Building (Art Building, Drama Building, and the Marroney Theatre/Fine Arts Oasis). CFA students are welcomed and invited to take advantage of this service while in these locations.

Find your computer's hardware address

Windows 2000 or XP Professional
Go to the Start menu and select Run.... (Remember, if you're using Windows XP Home, your computer cannot connect to the CFA Wireless network.). In the Run... box, type cmd and press return.

In the terminal window that opens, type ipconfig /all and press return. You will see output that describes your computers network connections. Find the section that references your wireless card and look for the line called Physical Address. The string of six pairs of numbers and letters is the hardware address (example screenshot from Wikipedia).

Mac OS X

Under the Apple menu, select About this Mac. In the window that opens, press the More Info... button to launch System Profiler. Select Network on the left side of the System Profiler window. In the list that appears on the right, select AirPort. Your AirPort card's hardware address is found below labeled MAC Address.

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