How do I clone a MAC address from a network USB adapter to a D-Link 704

[hanginon]

A friend of mine has a cable connection and when the installer hooked it all up he used a usb network adapter. He wants to change it to hook up with a regular network card so that he can put in a router but we can't get the modem to assign the address and such to the nic card. I think that they have tied his connection to the Mac address of the usb adapter because with it he can still connect regardless of what computer name or such that he puts in but it won't work with the network card.
The D-link has the capability of cloning the Mac address but It has to be able to see it first and it can't see the usb adaptor, does anyone know how to do this?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[joshdoe]

I've never heard of a MAC address being cloned. I would think that IEEE would not allow that.

 

[obenton]

Just inform the ISP of the MAC address change.

 

[Baba Booey]

I have cloned the MAC address with an SMC router. With the SMC, you use a browser to connect to the router from the computer using the NIC that you want to clone the MAC address from. Once connected, you have the option to "Clone MAC" and it pulls the MAC from the NIC card.
You also have the option of manually setting the MAC address for the router to use. If the D-Link gives you this option, you should be able to find the MAC address on the bottom of the USB NIC card and type it into the router setup.

 

[hanginon]

Thank you for your replies, We have tried to get the isp to change the MAC address but they refuse to even acknowledge that they are using this authentication method, we asked them to please change it over to a network card and their reply was that since it was working fine with the usb adapter then they would charge $150.00 an hour to come out and change it.
As far as being able to clone the MAC address by manualy entering it, I haven't found that option with the Dlink DI-704. If someone knows how to do that I would really appreciate some help with this.

 

[Baba Booey]

What is the method used for configuring the D-Link? Do you connect with a browser?

 

[hanginon]

Yes, I connect to the DI-704 with IE, I'm running Win98SE with IE 5.5.
The only option that I see is to clone the MAC address with what the Dlink is reading from whatever network card that it is attached to but since it won't read the usb adapter then I can't do that.
BTW, the Dlink has no problem reading any network card that I've hooked it up to.

 

[cavingjan]

I'm not following what you are looking for here. Why remove the USB nic? If your friend is installing a router (assuming a hardware router), you can still use that USB nic to connect to the router without any problem. If you are looking to convert the computer into a router with something like ICS or wingate, they should be able to handle the USB interface.

To get on to your question: If the cable company is adamant about them not using the MAC address, then probably they are not. They are not looking to make their lives more difficult over soemthing as simple as changing a mac address. Have you installed the PCI nic and made sure that it has teh exact same settings bound to it? AKA are all of the TCPIP settings the same?

 

[dukenukem]

Have you tried powercycling the cable modem? It may have the old MAC in an ARP cache.

Remember that once on a LAN only the MAC is used, not the IP address. The only thing the IP address is used for on a LAN is to find the MAC. Once a devices learns a MAC for a specific IP address it can be difficult to encourage it to change. Power Cycling normally remedies this.