John Wilson wrote: > > Hi again, > > Now I don't know a thing about that POS called Windows and I don't spend, oh, > about 85% of my time fixing ADSL, T1 and D3 connections from XP and its ilk > so I guess I don't know anything about this. > > The IP you get, as has been explained is a Zero Config IP. I thin MDK had it > turned on by default way back in v9.0 and got yelled at whole bunches. > Anyway, ignore it. It's meaningless unless it accidentally gives you the > home IP of one William Gates. Then either go to town or duck for cover, > whichever seems appropriate. > > The XP firewall hides. You have to click on Network from the control panel > then find your hardware..click on that....disable it...go to the properties > dialog and disable it there. Yes, it works connection by connection. Now, > go check your TCP/IP setup and make sure that it's okay but you do that on > the bridge. You might want to check the bridge for the firewall too, while > you're at it. > > After all that's done accept all the changes, sigh and reboot when it asks > for > it. If it doesn't ask reboot anyway because I've noticed that Zero Config on > Windows is stubborn as a mule unless you do. > > When it comes back up you should have the the IP served by the ISP. If not > do > the /release, /renew cycle until you get it. If you don't repeat the above > for every network device on the silly thing until you do. > > Don't tear hair out, if you're like me it's probably getting precious about > now anyway. > > Do get your relative to install a real OS ASAP. :-) > > Not that I know anything at all about Windows. Nope, not me. > > ttfn > > John > I think this is one of the better descriptions I have sean about how to "fix" the problem. The interesting thig, at least to me, is how many people on the list moved to Linux to get away from problems like this, and then get talked into fixing them for other people. It may have somethig to do with the fact that we don't spend much time fixing our Linux setups, so we have more time to fix other people's systems.
(I get to work on an XP laptop system that desided it doesn't want to boot any more - I can hardly wait to see how it managed to mess itself up this time... and I don't even run XP myself!) Mikkel -- Registered Linux User #16148 http://counter.li.org
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