Mehul Ved wrote: > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 7:22 AM, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am using Hathway cable internet where they bind your ip settings to your >> pc. If I unplug the lan cable from the pc and plug it into my laptop, I >> cannot browse. They are using some sort of dhcp with a static ip (I know >> that sounds funny - but that's what they say). >> > > I do face this a lot of times too. I have tried to ask them many times > as to the logic of the same and if they could disable it in my case. > But, it all fell on deaf ears. > > >> When I called the helpdesk, they said what I need to do is release the ip >> from my machine and then renew it on my laptop. something like ipcfg >> release and then ipcfg renew. The guy obviously has no clue how to do it >> in linux. >> >> What would be the equivalent in linux. I am using debian 5 and kubuntu >> 9.04 on the two machines. >> For the non-believers.
http://www.techenclave.com/broadband-forum/hathway-on-laptop-and-desktop-computers-120768.html -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
