Mac Forum / Applications / Internet Explorer / July 2008

Please tell me if this is the wrong forum for this.

My daughter has just bought our family's first MAC, a laptop, and I am
a little bit lost.  For reasons I cannot recall (other than that we
had problems with variable addresses, perhaps due to a printer wired
to one wired computer, perhaps due to a network printer), the PCs on
our home network use fixed IP addresses - some connect wirelessly,
some wired, with our router.  I recently purchased a laptop PC which
is normally wired (with a fixed IP address) but, if I travel, I need
to hit the F2 and FN buttons, so that I can change the IP address to
variable.  I know how to do this.

Now, I assume, for this new MACbook laptop, I may need to do something
similar.  Can someone advise me what to do, please?  Right now, it
isn't finding internet access.  It will always be wireless for now,
but when my daughter goes to school, it will use an ethernet cable
mostly.

So, for now:

At home now, wireless with fixed IP adress
Not at home, wireless with variable address

Later, at college:

Wired (in dorm room) or wireless (elsewhere, on campus)

Thanks much
Dean