On 01/23/2005 06:50 pm, Alan Pope wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 18:37:02 +0000, Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am planning to stay at a hotel which has Internet access but I know > > nothing about the IP addresses they use. I am assuming they use dhcp. > > If I know nothing of their network, what is the most convenient way to > > get my laptop connected? I am using KDE on a Debian Sarge system and my > > laptop is a Thinkpad (an old one) using a PCMCIA NIC. > > I have yet to stay in a hotel that *didn't* use DHCP! > > > I have pump and dhcp-client installed and also guessnet, but I have never > > used either of them. > > So you currently use static IP addresses?
Yes, at home I use static addresses. > > Have you got the card working on your laptop? If so, you can just type > "dhclient eth0" where eth0 is your network inteface. You can run > ifconfig to find out what the network interface is.. Thanks, that is what I needed to know. The card works at home but I did not know how I would get it working on a network where I did not know the IP addresses used or if they used dhcp, since I have not used dhcp since my Windows days. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]@p: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
