Boot Camp and ResNet...

[fearghas]

Hmmm...

What with the desire to play CS eating away at me like some sort of B-movie disease, I'm trying to get my MacBook Pro (running XP) to talk to ResNet. I can connect fine under OS X, but in Windows, I just get "Limited or No Connectivity".

It doesn't seem to be getting a proper IP address, something about the DHCP server not responding or somesuch. Which seems strange, given that my MAC address is registered and it all works under OS X...

Anyone got any ideas?

[Malcolm]

You should try releasing the DHCP lease through OSX, and then restart your machine into Windows which will then grab a fresh DHCP lease for you automatically.

DHCP clashes often occur on ResNet, and I had the same problem with dualbooting Vista and Linux.

I'm not sure how you do it on a Mac, though.

[Fawksie]

From time to time, Resnet used to flat-out refuse to assign me a dynamic IP, so I took the last one it had assigned and set it as static. Once an IP has been assigned by Resnet it seems to stick around for a fairly long time, releasing the lease never worked for me, but re-running the signup form http://portal.st-and.ac.uk/resnet/resnet.pl usually did. You could always try that if all else fails.

[fearghas]

THanks guys, I've got it working now. I tried assigning the same IP as I had before, and that didn't work.

I think that the problem is with the Client ID, which is specified in OS X as res06-username or somesuch, but you don't do this in Windows. So releasing the DHCP lease seemed to work, by renewing the lease with no client ID under OS X (and making sure I got a 138.x.x.x.x IP, and then disabling Ethernet and booting into Windows... Works now anyway, which is nice

Thanks for the help...