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Laptops
[ Rooms | Printing | Mindspring ISP | DHCP ]
Rooms
There are two terminal rooms available for conference delegates to plug in their laptops. The primary room is 280A adjacent to the Secretariat on the second floor of the Law School. This contains approximately 36 RJ45 ethernet taps into the Stanford network. DHCP is used to assign you an IP address.
You will need to configure your laptop to use DHCP.
A backup for laptop connections is in the Observers Room, Room 290. These are in the back rows of the room and allow use of the laptops while watching the speakers via the video feed.
Neither of these rooms has its own printer. You will need to select one in the Terminal Rooms, 271 or 272.
If you are in need of human assistance there will always be knowledgeable conference staff patrolling the rooms.
Printing from your laptop at the conference
Regrettably we have not yet quite figured out how to let you print directly from your Windows or Linux laptop! Hopefully soon!
Windows NT/95/98
get and install the HP JetDirect software (5 MB) from http://www.hp.com/cposupport/swindexes/hpjetadmin7644_swen.html (95/98) or http://www.hp.com/cposupport/swindexes/hpjetadmin1876_swen.html (NT)
if you need drivers for the printers, get them from
4si - http://www.hp.com/cposupport/indexes1/lj4simxs.html
Other drivers can be had from http://www.hp.com/cposupport/jsnav/prhome.html
then add a new printer, finding the one you want in the Browse list.
once you have added the printer, you will need to configure its port via the printer panel. Right click on the printer you added, then go to Details and then 'Add Port'. Give it the IP address for the printer and then you are off.
Note: these instructions are for W98. Hopefully NT and 95 are close!
Macintosh
the available printers are listed in the Law Appletalk zone. The printers have odd names. There is access to only 3 of the 5:
HPCGB114: HP5 in Rm 272
HPCGB1B John's Printer: HP4 in Rm 271
QMS Magicolor in the Speakers Room
Linux
use LPR from from your laptop; you just need the IP address of the printer and use a generic postscript 1 or 2 print driver.
ISP for dialup in the Bay Area
We have set up a time-limited service for you to have a local dialup service through Mindspring. Please do not stay connected when you are not using the service. You can use it by just setting your dialup adaptor.
Find the local access numbers and then use the account name lp99@mindspring.com (the account name really includes the "@mindspring.com"! The account and password are in lower case.). Here are the most likely set (Peninsula cities) you need to choose from:
City Access Number Palo Alto 650-618-0177 Mountain View 650-963-0177 San Jose - North 408-889-0177 San Mateo 650-523-0177 San Carlos 650-590-0177 San Francisco 415-376-0177 The password is posted in the terminal rooms. You can use their mail SMTP server, mail.mindspring.com for outgoing mail. If you need domain name servers (DNS), use 207.69.188.185 or 207.69.188.186.
Setting up your Dialup Adaptor
DHCP: getting an IP address for TCPIP
Linux (you asked for it!)