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[Ben Pfaff]

"Marcel Kunath" <kunathma@pilot.msu.edu> writes:

> A classmate of mine wants her laptop hooked up there during her study sessions.
> Now she just bought the laptop. Got the card installed. We followed the
> descriptions on the SNS website. We couldn't make it through to dhcp.cl.msu.edu
> to register.

In my experience that's always a problem with the card's
installation, not with the network.  Had your friend tried the
card with other networks, or was it a raw new installation that
hadn't been used at all?  If the latter, suspect that it's not
correctly installed.