[Live-demo] Re: DHCP

[maplabs at light42.com]

  > 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
 
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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... 
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-Brian