[Live-demo] Re: DHCP

Juan Lucas Domínguez Rubio juan_lucas_dr at yahoo.com
Sun Mar 28 11:18:10 PDT 2010


--- On Sun, 3/28/10, maplabs at light42.com <maplabs at light42.com> wrote:

> From: maplabs at light42.com <maplabs at light42.com>
> Subject: [Live-demo] Re: DHCP
> To: live-demo at lists.osgeo.org
> 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



      



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