Find HP Touchpad MAC Address
Posted by: david on 08/26/2011 - 10:27 PM
Got my shiny new $99 HP Touchpad today. To retrieve the MAC address for the HP Touchpad I had to:1) click on the "Center" button, then the up arrow in the bottom right hand corner. That opened the "Launcher".
2) I then navigated to the SETTINGS TAB and clicked on the Device Info button.
3) Then I clicked on the More Info button which displayed both the Wi-Fi and Bluethooth MAC addresses. It also showed that the model # of my Touchpad is HSTNH-I29C, hardware version A. Software version is HP webOS 3.0.0.
Like the Android Honeycomb tablet Ausus Eee Pad Transformer, you wander why HP didn't show the option to display the MAC Address during the initial setup of the Touchpad when you choose a Wireless Network to connect to. Many people use MAC Address filtering as an additional layer of security for Wifi. Instead I had to turn off MAC Address filtering first on my Wireless access point to have setup proceed, then locate the hardware address and enter the info and then re-enable the feature on the wireless AP.