I have a piece of equipment that when conntected to my cablebox/TV allows me to view my home TV on any computer from anywhere on the internet. This device only has a hardwired internet connection so I use a wireless print-server (it has a 4 ethernet ports that it bridges to the wireless) to connect the device to my home wireless network. Friday I changed my internet provider, and needed to reconfigure the print-server to use the new wireless network.
The problem was I could not get my laptop to connect to the printer-server (via a hardwired cable). I tried letting my laptop auto configure, I tried setting the address manually (ifconfig). None of this worked I could not get connected to the print-server. I turned off the wireless network on my laptop so the hardwired ethernet was the only NIC available. When plugging in the ethernet cable, the network manager would grid away for 3 or 4 minutes but the connection would always fail. I bought a my laptop last week and installed wheezy on it. I still have the old one and have not updated, so it still runs squeeze. I pulled out my old laptop, plugged-in the ethernet cable to the print-server and entered the same ifconfig commands to set the IP address manually and viola, I could connect to the print-server and modified its settings with no problem. Any idea why one laptop worked while the other didn't. As a side note, in the network manager on the old laptop with squeeze, if you left-clicked one of the options listed there is "auto eth0", this doesn't seem to exist on the network manager on the new wheezy laptop. Is there an equivalent function in the wheezy version of the GUI? I have used "auto eth0" several times to connect to various hardwired equipment and it comes in handy. Does anyone know exactly what auto eth0 does to the ethernet port? Thanks.
