turn usb printer into wireless?

[MR ZenWiz]

On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 1:04 AM, Angus MacGyver
<macgyver at calibre-solutions.co.uk> wrote:
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> If you do already have a network, then MAC addresses should be
> irrelevant really.
> MAC = Media Access Control - it the theoretically unique hardware
> address of every network card, and you cannot set it, it is put their by
> the manufacturer of the network card.
>
Actually not so much - you can change the MAC address of anything to
which you have a direct connection.  Usually IME it's been as simple
as a configuration option that asks if I want to set or clone the MAC
address (e.g., in my router, which was required by the cable internet
configuration where I live - the cable company only recognizes that
MAC address and won't even talk to the router unless it has the same
MAC address as the original PC that the subscriber hooked up
originally, and this is not unusual).

For most flavors of Linux and UNIX, you can change a MAC address with
ifconfig.  There's usually a file somewhere in /etc that holds the MAC
address, but that depends on your particular
installation/distro/network manager.