--- On Sun, 3/28/10, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: [Live-demo] Re: DHCP > To: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, March 28, 2010, 7:05 PM > > > Brian: do you know how your router is configured? Is > your MAC > address mapped to a certain local IP? Can you soften the > router DHCP > restrictions in any way and check if the live DVD gets > online? > > > In our case, that lab uses 172.16.0.xx, not > 192.168.1.xx > the restrictions are very minimal, so I dont think > restrictions are any issue > > I just tried another experiement with a Lenovo Centrino > Laptop offsite > I booted on the LiveDVD with ethernet plugged in - it did > detect DHCP > > now that I think of it, the machine at the lab may have > been a wireless > machine > both wireless networks have passwords.. > booting the Lenovo laptop w/o ethernet, then choosing the > wireless > network worked > adding ethernet after that worked > > so the wireless password has a lot to do with this.. > sorry, the lab machine is a desktop so I didnt think of it > as wireless... > I would like to confirm in the lab > > -- > unfortunately I tried to look something up with > Firefox/Google now on > the Lenovo and FF crashed > re-opening FF and trying again, crashed > the crash reporter said "cannot report problem, Firefox is > not a > genuine Ubuntu package" > 1GB of RAM it looks like... > -- > > -Brian Thanks. Hopefully this issue is rarer than I thought. Juan Lucas _______________________________________________ Live-demo mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc
