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
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