On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Rod Lindgren wrote:
Yes, it was a typo.
I have tried setting the IP address for the desktop manually, but it could not access the internet. It can access the router's setup screen (192.168.0.1), but cannot find the internet. The computer runs Zone Alarm, but I turn it completely off and still no internet.
On other computers and networks I have worked on, manually configuring the IP address made a near immediate change and I did not need to reboot. I will try rebooting anyway after manually configuring.
One question about the DNS server field in the manual configuration. I am not sure what to put there, so it remains blank. Could this be the problem?
Doh!
Sorry for the SA response but, how can a computer find anything on the Internet if it does not know the IP address? Humans need the www.whatever.whatever internet names. Computers need the IP address. So a scheme (Domain Name Servers/System) was devised to provide the required translation: Name => IP Address. If you ain't got a DNS address entry, you ain't going nowhere (unless you use IP addresses only). :)
Use the DNS server address(es) the notebook is using. Or you can usually obtain the DNS address(es) from the router's status page. Another reason DHCP is great... you don't need to know beans about addresses, they are automagically provided. It's also why the notebook is working. :)
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