[ale] Network Vendor String

[jcouncilman at knology.net (John C)]

Use this:
http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/oui.txt

You can grep the first three pairs from your MAC address and get the vendor.


On 10/10/06, ale at jeffx.com <ale at jeffx.com> wrote:
>
> Say I am writing a little script to obtain hardware inventory on my linux
> system.  I want the vendor string of the network card(s).  I know there
> has to be a way to get it because the installer reads the information as
> does network-configuration tools.
>
> I have looked around in /proc with no success.  Is there a way to get that
> information?
>
> Regards,
> Jeff
>
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