No doubt there is a dog, or a paper clip, or animated banana avaliable on windows to annoy... i mean help you. As long as both your router and the laptop are set to dhcp it should be plug and play, with no need to reboot anything. Rick On 1/15/08, John Seago <seago.john@googlemail.com> wrote:
I am connected to the internet via a Netgear DG834 Router, which has four outlets. Up until now I have been the only user. (thus I have never had any need to even consider the matter of more than a single user). My wife's god-daughter is due to vist shortly with her laptop, can I just plug her lap-top into one of the three vacant outlets and assign her the next number in the 192.168.0.X series? Do I need to turn the router off to plug in an extra outlet?
As she is using Microsoft I presume there will be some kind of 'Wizard' that will take us through the necessary steps. -- John Seago GNU/Linux Registered User No. #219566 http://counter.li.org/ () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail - against microsoft attachments /\
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