Re: [tlug] A place to connect my laptop

[dave@example.com]

Curt, Keith,

Thanks for the tips.

I was going to sign up for the M-Zone thing at the DoCoMo Shop  
yesterday, but they wanted two forms of ID. Or at least that's how I'm  
interpreting the fact that they wanted my passport as well as my  
gaikokujin torokushou, and I don't have a driver's license or  
juminhyou. I'm hoping it's not a foreigner-only requirement. I too  
tired to deal with the potential policial implications right now  
anyway. I suppose I might still go do it, I just need to dig up my  
passport later today.

I tried signing up online to a few other places, but, to keep a long  
story short, I hit walls of bureaucracy at every turn. It seems like  
my money isn't good enough. I'm trying to pay people for a service,  
and I just can't seem to get anyone to accept my money.

Anyway, currently I'm at the internet cafe in Roppongi again. I  
brought my laptop just to check on whether or not I could log in.  
According to the Windows Control Panel, it's all DHCP and automatic  
DNS. So that's what I set my laptop to.

But, despite an icon in the upper left hand of my Ubuntu/Gnome  
interface saying I'm "connected to wired network", nothing actually  
works. If I try to go to Google or anywhere else in FireFox, I get a  
"FireFox Can't Find The Server At..." message.

If I look at the "Active Connection Information" by clicking on the  
aforementioned icon, I get:
Interface: Wired Ethernet (eth0)
Speed: 100 Mb/s
Driver: natsemi
IP Address: 10.7.241.222
Broadcast Address: 10.7.0.1
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Default route: 10.7.0.1
Primary DNS: 10.7.0.1
Secondary DNS: 210.174.171.74

That all looks like my machine is talking to the network.

Is there some other setting I need to consider to actually be able to  
use that network connection with FireFox and Thunderbird, etc... ?

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Dave M G