Hi crew,
On updating to 18.04 one of my commercial java programs refuses to start. It’s looking for a MAC address to make a machine number for licensing purposes, and can’t find one so terminates.
I’ve just checked the difference between 16.04 and 18.04, this is an abbreviated version of my results.
Here’s the first line from ifconfig using 16.04
michael@Mate:~$ ifconfig
enp3s0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr a0:f3:c1:01:c2:7d
A hardware address, completely missing when I do the same thing in 18.04
mike@Mikes-mate:~$ ifconfig
enp3s0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether a0:f3:c1:01:c2:7d txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
So any ideas how I can fix this please???
It’s a pain having to reboot into 16.04 every time I want to use this program.