begin quoting Bob La Quey as of Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 10:26:15AM -0800: > Ok folks, here is my problem. > > I have a laptop that uses a NETGEAR USB wireless card. > It works fine on my home netwsork with a NETGEAR router > using DHCP. > > I take it out to my favorite coffee house, > It's A Grind Coffee House > 1601 India St, San Diego, CA > and try it out. > > I get hooked up to 169.254.8.1 which looks > odd to me, but I can ping it just fine. > Then I cannot get any DNS service. > > A little Googling back home and I find ZeroConf. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeroconf > > I will continue Googling to see if I can find some > missing software ... but can any one give me a > quick "How To" here?
I'm assuming that you've used a browser to try to connect to something? I normally get this sort of grief when I use a hotel's internet service, since I typically resort first to ssh. I have to bring up a web-browser, attempt to get to some well-known site, so they can redirect me to their access control web-page. Then, if I'm lucky, I can do the appropriate dance and agree to the terms of service, and then they open up everything. Have you asked the staff if there's anything special you need to do? Maybe they changed something in their system. -- Some hotels expect me to run an ActiveX control; I tell them that I can't in a voice most droll. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
