Re: setting up network

[Pollywog <linux-debian@shadypond.com>]

On 01/23/2005 06:50 pm, Alan Pope wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 18:37:02 +0000, Pollywog <linux-debian@shadypond.com> 
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.



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