Clueless Newbie needs Networking Help

[simon.law@std.net (Tor- Simon Law)]

Hello.

	I'm pretty new to Debian and have been unable to get my network
configured properly.  You see, in a couple days, I will be heading off
to University of Waterloo (Canada) and will want to hook up to their
residence's network.

	The only problem is, they've given me settings that theoretically
working for flavours of Windows, but those settings seem to be dodgy
when it comes to the Debian installation programme (dbootstrap).

	Now I've sifted through various HOWTO's and I still haven't figured
it out yet.  Perhaps someone could help me.

	Here is the information I have:

My host name: (Whatever I bloody please)
Domain name: uwaterloo.ca
My IP address: "Obtain IP address automatically"
My netmask: Well, in Windows, once "Obtain IP address automatically"
is selected, one doesn't have to enter a subnet mask...
My broadcast address: Unknown.  (I assume that the default should be
okay.)
Gateway address: None.
My DNS server: None.

	As far as Windows services and protocols are concerned, they want me
to start up: Client for Microsoft Networks, IPX/SPX, NetBEUI, and
TCP/IP.  I'm using an ISA D-Link DE250CT card, but I think I've
successfully loaded up the module as dmesg | more, shows it detecting
the right IRQ and the I/O address I gave it.

	Thanks for any help you can give me!

Yours,
	Simon