On Sat, September 8, 2007 9:52 am, James G. Sack (jim) wrote: > 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 > >
Na, it was a breeze. It's now serving x.x.x.200-x.x.x.250. I can have 51 of my closest and dearest friends (or KPLUG ;) over for a wireless bash. See ya in 1/2 an hour. We gonna have fun! -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
