[LUGSB] Re: What next?

[Mark Drago]

I opted to spoof the mac address of my desktop machine so that it
matched the mac of the laptop.  That worked fine using 'ifconfig eth0 hw
ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx'.  I then registered that mac using konqueror,
after some difficulties using mozilla at
http://register.resnet.sunysb.edu.  Now I'm just waiting for the
registration to go through so I can get a real IP and install debian. 
Thanks for your help.

On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 22:14, Charles P Wright wrote:
> Well.  Depending on how the install works here are a few things you can
> do.
> 
> If it is a PCMCIA card, you can register it with another machine.
> 
> Alternatively if you have a friend with a PCMCIA card registered you can
> pop that in your laptop for the moment.
> 
> Some  machines can spoof a MAC.  If you want to do that then you need to
> do something like:
> /sbin/ifconfig hw [MAC]
> 
> (That was from reading the man page, I don't know the exact syntax.)
> 
> Anyway.  You can do this on either the machine you want to install (to the
> mac of an already registered machine) or on another machine to register.
> 
> Chip
> 
> On 3 Nov 2002, Mark Drago wrote:
> 
> > I'm still waiting to get the piece of mail from the Student Activities
> > Office so that we can request the use of a room in order to hold a
> > meeting.  Once we get that we should be good to go.
> >
> > I am having a problem that I hope someone on this list can help me
> > with.  I bought a laptop today.  It's an old toshiba satellite 410CS
> > (Pentium 90, 40MB ram, 1.3GB disk).  I got it for $60.  The problem I'm
> > having is mostly due to the registration that I must do in order to get
> > net access from within the resnet network on campus.  I want to install
> > debian.  So, I'm going to use the network install.  However, before I
> > can get the laptop to access the internet I need to register it.  This
> > registration requires a web browser.  So, I need a bootable floppy (or
> > series of floppies) that will boot, configure my PCMCIA network card,
> > connect to a network via DHCP, and let me use a web browser.  I can't
> > boot off of a CD so that option is out.  So far I have tried the debian
> > install floppies, the mandrake boot floppy, the QNX4 Demo Disk :o), and
> > floppix.  Any help or suggestions is appreciated.
> >
> > Mark.
> >
> >
> >
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