Re: don't know router

2006-08-22 Thread Colin
Kent West wrote: > As a general rule, the DHCP server should feed the gateway address to > your notebook. I'm not sure you can manually code in the gateway address > if you're using DHCP, but assuming you can, the easiest way to get the > address is to go to a machine running Windows and from a Com

Re: don't know router

2006-08-22 Thread Kent West
debian wrote: On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 12:03:47PM -0500, Kent West wrote: As a general rule, the DHCP server should feed the gateway address to Well after booting, I cannot ping any external addresses, although the names are resolved ok. your notebook. I'm not sure you can manually

Re: don't know router

2006-08-22 Thread debian
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 12:03:47PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > As a general rule, the DHCP server should feed the gateway address to Well after booting, I cannot ping any external addresses, although the names are resolved ok. > your notebook. I'm not sure you can manually code in the gateway add

Re: don't know router

2006-08-22 Thread Kent West
debian wrote: Sarge and: Linux knoppix 2.6.15-1-686 #2 Mon Mar 6 15:27:08 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux The college I work in is strictly M$ only. When I bring in my notebook (as above) and fire it up I get allocated an ip address of 172.16.2.8, by a dhcp server someplace 192.168.2.23. (I don't have