On Saturday 14 February 2004 01:18, Marc Resnick wrote: > On Friday 13 February 2004 06:43 pm, lanman wrote: > > On February 13, 2004 06:33 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: > > > Does anyone know if there's a way to make sure you get a certain IP > > > from the dhcp? My router won't assign IPs by MAC address, nor will it > > > allow me to surf with a static IP set. I have a Linksys BEFW11S4 > > > Router. Does anyone know a way around this? > > > > Marc; Why not set your PC to a static IP address? That would solve it > > permanently. > > > > Lanman > > True, it would. But understand that I'm just 13 and my Dad's a bit sketchy > about doing these things. > > But: I spoke to linksys techsupport. They said I need to put in the DNS. I > supposed that means I should put it in my ifcfg-wlan0 file. Do you know the > name of the setting I need to enter? > > Marc wouldn't that be: "ifconfig wlan0 0.0.0.0" ??? I never use dhcp so I've no means to test it, sorry.
Be sure to put the right settings in "etc/wlan/wlancfg-wlan0" or "wlancfg-DEFAULT", though. -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's & more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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