Re: don't know router

[debian <debian@benburb.demon.co.uk>]

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 address 
> if you're using DHCP, but assuming you can, the easiest way to get the 

route add default gw aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd

no ?

> address is to go to a machine running Windows and from a Command Prompt 
> window, type "ipconfig /all".

Nah, I cannot get a command prompt.  There are just no administrator
programs or facilities allowed to ordinary users.

Thanks

Joe