Lan Barnes wrote: > On Sat, September 8, 2007 8:44 am, James G. Sack (jim) wrote: >> Lan Barnes wrote: >>> My son's <gag> Vista laptop is connecting to the home wireless, but not >>> pinging. Anyone at that technical bookstore game to give a tutorial on >>> connection a Vista box to wireless? >> I betcha that even if there is not someone qualified to deliver said >> tutorial, you would find several who are willing to help puzzle it out. >> >> It's not _that_ esoteric. I think it just needs some imagination to find >> a couple/three paths to the right parts of the Windows configuration >> interface. >> >> Regards, >> ..jim >> >> > > Thanks. I may come. I also want to get bluetooth going on my FC6 laptop. > > I just had a hot flash on the Vista issue. M$ likes DHCP and seems to > reset itself. I like static IPs because DHCP seems like foo foo on a small > home network. > > Maybe if I can configure the d-link to serve dhcp in a range of addresses > and keep my static IPs out of that range, I can let M$ be M$. >
RE static IPs on wireless: I haven't played with that. Seems it should work either way, but you still have to "associate" and deal with authentication. It may be easier to accept the package deal that, I think, is kind-of assumed by portable computers. You probably want to make your son's computer as conventional as possible, I suspect. You could bring in your dlink, if you think there might be difficulty in configuring it. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
