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   Earl Colby Pottinger to All   
   Re: MAC addres   
   27 Jul 05 01:47:04   
   
   From: earlcp@idirect.com   
      
   fenixproductions  :   
      
   > Dnia Tue, 26 Jul 2005 09:39:28 +0200, Edmund napisał(a):   
   >   
   > [cut]   
   > > You can't as far as I know.   
   >   
   > it's a pity ;(   
   >   
   > > As m4rcone said, if the card is working under any other OS, the MAC   
   > > is fine and you should not change that.   
   >   
   > MAC is fine... but I won't get IP from DHCP for that "working" MAC   
   > address.   
   >   
   > > The easy way to "spoof" a MAC address is use a router and simply   
   > > change the MAC address by the menu. Works on all OS'es.   
   >   
   > The easiest way is change MAC addres physically.   
   > But Realtek's tool doesn't work correctly.   
   >   
   > (The tool is MSDOS application. But in running Windows mode there's no   
   > option to change MAC in that soft.   
   > When I'm running MSDOS there's... no way to change MAC 'cause the card   
   > hasn't seen by "OS")   
      
   Sound like to me that you need to boot in Windows, copy the information DCHP   
   gives you then boot in Beos, go to preferences/network then key in the   
   information manually.  That is how I got my networking going.   
      
                Earl Colby Pottinger   
      
      
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