Laptop and DHCP

Greg 'groggy' Lehey grog at FreeBSD.org
Mon Sep 29 19:07:06 PDT 2003


On Monday, 29 September 2003 at 14:38:38 -0500, Christopher M. Hobbs wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I suppose this is a newbie question, but I figured I'd give these lists a
> shot.
>
> I just installed FreeBSD 5.0 on my laptop, and I have a 3COM Megahertz
> PCMCIA card (Model 3CCE589ET to be exact).  I have a cable modem (I'm using
> DCHP with that) that goes into a Linksys router and 4 port switch (serving
> up DHCP internally), then into a Linksys hub.  All of the other computers
> on the network can access the internet just fine, and are assigned IPs
> without a problem.  I just can't seem to get this laptop onto the network
> for some reason.
>
> Any idea what I need to do to set this up to access the internet?

Well, a good start would be to tell us what you've done so far, and
what happened.

Greg
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