Do you have to connect to the internet to get an IP address?
I've just bought a new laptop and I need the IP address to add it to my home wireless network. However, when I type in the cmd codes the IP address doesn't appear. Is this because the new laptop has never connected to the internet? If this is so, how do I obtain an IP address?
Public Comments
- Actually, you don't need the IP address of your laptop, because the router that controls your network will assign it one. What you might need is the MAC address of the wireless network adapter. This address must be listed on the underside of the laptop - it will be a string of 12 hexadecimal digits (zero through E) separated by dashes into six pairs. There will be two of these, one for your wired Ethernet adapter, and one for your wireless adapter. The wireless one should be denoted by a designator of 802.11g (or .11b, or .11n).
- if you are setting it up on a home network then you can add it yourself , but (there always is) you need to now the workgroup that the other machine is called and it's IP then you can input those details into yours and upping the last number of the IP by 1 (If it was 10 put 11)
