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I work part-time for my university's help desk and I was both impressed and disappointed the first time I came across one of these--one the one hand, its highly
by morpheuskafka 5y ago
I work part-time for my university's help desk and I was both impressed and disappointed the first time I came across one of these--one the one hand, its highly customizable and supports SSH access. On the other hand, there is shockingly no way to get the MAC address without connecting via SSH, even though this is popular among academics who often need to get onto MAC filtered networks.
In hindsight, we probably could have connected it to the guest network, gotten its IP and then had the networking group look up its MAC on their logs. What we wound up doing is telling the user to go home and check their own router for the MAC, which is obviously less than ideal service.
- jackson1442 5y agoYou can connect it via USB and ssh locally. Obviously showing it in the interface would be better but that would work. It also fully supports 802.1X, which surprised me.
- tadbit 5y agoYeah... screw that. reMarkable's crappy UI shouldn't necessitate a bunch of extra work on the grandparent's part. They're completely justified in telling end users to go home to get the MAC.
- chefandy 5y agoYeah, that's bananas. Even the cheapest of cheap IOT devices expose that, even if it's just on a sticker.
- formerly_proven 5y agoI was under the impression that having the MAC address on the device's label was some kind of regulatory requirement for Wifi - I have never seen a wireless device without it.
- judge2020 5y agoI think that's for APs, given pretty much no smartphone has its MAC printed on it.
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- formerly_proven 5y agoOh, true! I thought it was the MAC address in tiny print on iPhones but it's actually the FCC ID and IMEI. On the other hand, all smartphones have the MAC and serial number easily accessible in their settings menu.
- bbarnett 5y agoMany phones let you rotate your MAC too, to prevent profiling...
- djrogers 5y ago> I thought it was the MAC address in tiny print on iPhones but it's actually the FCC ID and IMEI. iPhones haven't been doing that for years - they have no markings other than the apple logo on the back.
- jaywalk 5y agoYou must not have seen an iPhone in quite a while. There is absolutely nothing printed on iPhones these days, all of the regulatory stuff is under the Settings menu.
- cookingmyserver 5y agoDepends on the country. Although they have been hiding it pretty well, and usually it is only symbols and not detailed information like IDs.
- NieDzejkob 5y agoWhere does your phone have this sticker?
- trangus_1985 5y agoIt is a requirement, although you can now use "e-labels". Such as, a page in the settings that has the FCC information. (IANAL)
- shreddit 5y agoJust connect to a wifi you have admin access to. This is very sad. https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002674778-Wi-Fi-Settings https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000267477...
- blumomo 5y agoHuh? You still need the root password which you only get once you open the settings menu. I protect my remarkable with a PIN code, so only I should see the root password.
- thaumasiotes 5y agoIf you connect the device to a wireless network, you can see the MAC address from the perspective of the network. You can't connect without advertising your address.
- kayodelycaon 5y agoThe reMarkable is surprisingly good for its primary purpose. Everything else it does... is limited. They things they did do are done well given how they are implemented. The epub/pdf experience sucks because it doesn't have a real pdf reader. It just renders the epub to pdf and then throw the pdf into the note-taking app. Arguably, none of the functionality is half-assed. It works very well as a writing tablet. It absolutely sucks as a general purpose device because everything except the very core experience is flat-out missing. There isn't a good general purpose eInk tablet and the reMarkable is the closest thing we have. :(
- NoGravitas 5y agoMaybe keep an eye out on the PineNote. It's bound to be much worse than the reMarkable as a writing tablet, but it should also be general purpose in a lot of ways the rm isn't.
- kayodelycaon 5y agoDon't have the skills to hack on one myself but I can't wait to see what people do with it. :)
- zhdc1 5y agoThe Onyx Boox series is really good. The writing experience is almost as good as a Remarkable. The reading experience is excellent, and it's runs Android.
- mariusor 5y ago> and it's runs Android I apologize for the snark, but I refuse to see how this is a plus over "it runs vanilla linux".
- scotu 5y agoI would also add that last I heard Onyx was probably violating the GPL if that is a decision factor for anybody reading this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23735962 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23735962 (please correct me if there were more recent developments)
- e12e 5y agoHm, you can't get the wifi MAC by connecting via USB, and ssh in over USB, then using iwconfig or looking at dmesg?
- stefan_ 5y agoYou could also of course turn off the ineffective MAC filtering, was this option considered?
- easton 5y agoI doubt that they are actually using MAC filtering, but probably some kind of captive portal that the Remarkable doesn't have support for (without setting up a SOCKS proxy, which doesn't count as a solution, IMO)[0]. Most of these captive portal systems allow someone with privileges to add a MAC address to the system manually, so that device has access without having to go through the portal itself. In the old days, that was the kosher way to get Xboxes and the like on hotel Wi-Fi (they'd often have a number you could call from the room to get a network admin to put your widget on the list). 0: https://remarkablewiki.com/tips/wifi https://remarkablewiki.com/tips/wifi (Also, given that OP's a part time helpdesk person, they can't turn the MAC filtering off anyway).
- gh02t 5y agoI have a Hololens 2 on my desk that is the same way, you have to log in and sign in with a Microsoft account to access the MAC. Getting it onto my corporate network was a massive pain. Worse, to log in with our directory service we need to be on the corporate network that is MAC blocked so I ended up having to make a throwaway MS account and tethering it with my phone. Prior to this I didn't even realize you could omit the address, for some reason I thought it was a requirement to have the MAC address printed somewhere on the device/packaging.
- 908B64B197 5y agoConsidering their target market, that's a valuable feature suggestion. If you have time I'm sure they would appreciate the feedback.
- elzbardico 5y agoWell, you know that MAC filtering is really useless, right?
- ramraj07 5y agoAnd so is expiring passwords but every company does it so what?