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Mandrake 9.2 LAN connection difficulties in a large University setting

I'm running Mandrake 9.2 on a separate hard drive from my XP. What I'd like to do is connect to my University's LAN with Mandrake also. Autodetection of network settings does not work.

Okay, for the sake of explanation lets assume that I'm a complete idiot. I can open a terminal and so forth, but other than that I'm an idiot.

About the school LAN I can tell you that each computer is registered to a specific workgroup by MAC addresses. I couldn't walk over to another building with my computer and connect to the LAN there. The IPs and everything are static but are requested from the DHCP sever every time a computer accesses the network. Each computer in the network is assigned a name according to room.

The copy of my network connection details in XP are as follows:
Workgroup: NWMSU
Computer Name: CR202a
Physical Address: 98-45-32-56-12-78
IP Address: 10.137.100.15
Subnet Mask: 255.255.0.0
Default Gateway: 10.137.1.254
DHCP Server: 10.1.1.10
DNS Servers: 10.1.1.10; 10.1.1.11
No WINS serve

'pump -i eth0' should do everything. If dhcp is broken in your network for a reason or an other, setting these by hand is:

Code:

ifconfig eth0 up 10.137.100.15 netmask 255.255.0.0

route add default gw 10.137.1.254

echo 'nameserver 10.1.1.10' > /etc/resolv.conf

echo 'nameserver 10.1.1.11' >> /etc/resolv.conf

When I try to reconfigure my MAC address with

ifconfig eth0 hw ether [MAC] up

I get an error telling me that the device or service is busy. I migrated over to Mandrake from Redhat and never had this problem. Can anyone help me resolve it?

Other than that I should be able to connect to the LAN. Thanks ToniT.

Either your device doesn't support altering the mac address or the device is really busy. Try to run 'ifconfig eth0 down' first. If still doesn't work, you could try the macchanger tool.