XPost: phl.internet   
   From: darmok@punkass.com   
      
   In article ,   
    Shel  wrote:   
      
   > Apropos of this, I am a newcomer to laptops and to wireless networks.   
   >   
   > I took my new (old) laptop with Win98 and wi-fi card to the   
   > Reading Terminal Market.   
   >   
   > Managed to tell the program that monitors the card that it should use SSID   
   > (?) of "pcca". Then it showed a signal strength of about 34% and a signal   
   > quality near 100%.   
   >   
   > But when I asked an e-mail program to access  pop3.myrealbox.com, or a   
   > telnet program to access unix5.netaxs.com , they protested they couldn't   
   > find a DNS server.   
   >   
   > What can be done?   
      
   Normally, your computer would do a DHCP type exchange with the WAP   
   (wireless access point),,, to obtain an IP address, hostmask, gateway   
   address, and domain name server addresses.  Apparently that didn't   
   happen for you... Which means you weren't connected to the right network   
   properly or your settings were foo.   
      
   - Dan.   
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