Re: networking problem (perhaps with Autonegotiate?)

[Darryl Barlow <darrylb@iprimus.com.au>]

I haven't had the dubious pleasure of having any association with an ME 
Network.  However, if other versions of Windows are anything to go by my 
recollection is that Connection Sharing sets up the gateway as 192.168.0.1 
with the other machines usually getting their IP from the gateway via dhcp.

If you want to use ifconfig at the command line to bring up your connection 
you will need to find out and use the appropriate details, including the 
gateway ip address, and make sure the default route is set up.  An easier way 
would be to simply set up your /etc/network/interfaces file to use dhcp.  
This assumes, of course, that connection sharing is properly set up on your 
neighbours network.

You should test the connection by pinging first the gateway, then an address 
on the net, perhaps your isp.  Once this works so should your web browser.

Good luck.