How can my MacBook recognize its serial number again?

My MacBook (duo intel core) will not recognize its serail number.
I had the logic board exchanged last year because the old one broke down. I learned just recently that the serial number was not reinstalled again, because I want to use automatic DHCP to get an IP in our new local network. There the MacBook is registered with its serial number. But it can't get the IP-address since it doesn't recognize its serial number. Instead the system profiler will show (language is german):
Seriennummer: SystemSerialNumb
How can I reinstall the serial number?

Hi
You can't, unfortunately - this should have been done at Apple.
The network has no way to find out the serial number of attached computers, even if it did have one. More commonly, a machine's MAC address (ethernet or wireless ID) is used to identify it. You can find out this information through System Profiler.
Matt

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