<strong>Your Name:</strong> Dana Lutenegger
<strong>Today’s Date</strong>: 2008/1/21
<strong>Day(s) worked or described</strong>: Tues, Thurs, Fri
<strong>Total hours for week</strong>: 7
<strong>The School</strong>: Fermi Elementary
<strong>Kind of Work</strong>: Tech General/Repair
<strong>Main Report or Narrative</strong>:

On Tuesda, I was flagged down almost immediately by Mr. Hinton, whose internet and printer were not working.  Suspecting that the internet problem from last week was spreading, I tried all of the usual tricks and found no answers.  After a chat with Shaz, I decided to try installing a new version of the network adapter drivers for the computer.  This actually took a while, because I had to get several unreliable computers to recognize my unreliable USB key.  Finally, I got the drivers on to the right computer and installed them.  They were nifty and new, but did nothing to solve the problem.  I fiddled with it a while longer, and then had to go home without success.

On Thursday, I first inspected the computers in the teacher's resource room, finding that creating a new local connection was not a good strategy, but manually entering addresses is.  With this in mind, I returned to Mr. Hinton's room and fixed his computers.  At his request, I also set up a second computer in his room to print over the network to his HP 1022n.  I might have to go back next week and check those computers, come to think of it, because I can't remember if I set them to a static ip address, or if I set them to a dynamic one by mistake.

On Friday, the great computer lab fix was underway, as I went through setting every computer with the internet problem to use manual static IP addresses.  The chart of IP addresses I used is on Google Docs and shared to Mitch and CUIP.  The only computers I skipped were computers whose internet still seemed to be working, and computers that were broken in other ways.  I had so many computers to set, I didn't want myself to get sidetracked too easily.  I finished it all up, made the spreadsheet, and headed out.

Next week we'll have to permanently resolve this issue, and reset a lot of computers.  Mr. Hinton also needs a program installed for his afterschool program on Tuesday.