dan abernathy

Hi folks.

I have a user here who uses his notebook on a wireless network here at the office with no problems.

When he takes the notebook home and attempts to use it on his Linksys home wireless network (which has other computers working correctly on it), he cannot browse the web.

Some preliminary troubleshooting reveals that the notebook is getting a new IP address, subnet mask, default gateway, etc. when it associates to his home network - but it is retaining DNS server information from the office. So he ends up with an odd mix of settings, like:

IP Address 192.168.0.1 <-- correct
Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0 <-- correct
Default Gateway 192.168.0.254 <--correct (address of his Linksys box)
DNS Servers: 10.0.2.10 <-- valid at work, but not at home
10.0.2.8 <-- ditto

His other, working computers show the Linksys at 192.168.0.254 as the only DNS server entry.

I've tried having him do "ipconfig /release" and then "ipconfig /renew" to get a new DHCP lease and refresh all the info, but even after that the notebook still has DNS entries from the office.

Any ideas how to force it to renew ALL of the info? Some registry key I can change from 0 to 1 to say "yes, I really do want you to renew *everything* when you connect"? Is his Linksys perhaps misconfigured and not handing out DNS information?

Any help appreciated.