Re: [OT] Using a wireless router as a point of access to LAN

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kenward Vaughan wrote: > can ping, telnet, etc., other machines on the LAN, > but it does not make it outside. I cannot ping a numeric IP address > ("destination port unreachable" from the 486 gateway) or anything like > ftp.debian.org (times out).

[OT] Using a wireless router as a point of access to LAN

Hi, I've been using a wireless router (Netgear wgr614, a present from my sister) to connect a now-mobile computer to my home LAN. This replaced an old 486 I was using. Well, the darned thing stopped working (Internet port seems to be non-functional), so I slapped my Debian-based 486 back into pl