Re: absurdly simple LAN problem - SOLVED?

2005-09-19 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 19 Sep 2005, Jared Hall wrote: > Anthony > > >1. There is a page in the router set-up which shows attached devices; > >the laptop appears here as 192.168.0.3, for some reason. > > >From what I have gathered you haven't been able to get your laptop > (wireless) to connect to your desktop (Ether

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem - SOLVED?

2005-09-19 Thread Jared Hall
Anthony >1. There is a page in the router set-up which shows attached devices; >the laptop appears here as 192.168.0.3, for some reason. >From what I have gathered you haven't been able to get your laptop (wireless) to connect to your desktop (Ethernet). You are connecting both of these machines

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem - SOLVED?

2005-09-19 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 19 Sep 2005, Wackojacko wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > >On 17 Sep 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > >After some more experimentation I seem to have got ping to work in both > >directions, by means of the following: > > > >1. There is a page in the router set-up which shows attached devices

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem - SOLVED?

2005-09-19 Thread Wackojacko
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 17 Sep 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: After some more experimentation I seem to have got ping to work in both directions, by means of the following: 1. There is a page in the router set-up which shows attached devices; the laptop appears here as 192.168.0.3, for some r

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem - SOLVED?

2005-09-19 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Sep 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: After some more experimentation I seem to have got ping to work in both directions, by means of the following: 1. There is a page in the router set-up which shows attached devices; the laptop appears here as 192.168.0.3, for some reason. 2. I removed (inst

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Sep 2005, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (16/09/05 18:20), Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 16 Sep 2005, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > > It looks as if the router does NAT between the wireless and the wired > > > segments. > > > Can you configure the router to do bridging ? > > > >

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Sep 2005, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > >On 9/17/05, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > iface eth1 inet dhcp > > address [2]192.168.0.22 > > auto eth0 > > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > address [3]192.168.0.20 > I could be m

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-17 Thread TreeBoy
On Saturday 17 Sep 2005 11:38, Florian Dorpmueller wrote: > >># The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian > >>installation > >>auto eth0 > > > >iface eth0 inet dhcp > > > > Hey, there's a bug! Replace "dhcp" by "static" please on both computers. > > Flo

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-17 Thread Florian Dorpmueller
# The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian installation auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp Hey, there's a bug! Replace "dhcp" by "static" please on both computers. Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-16 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On 9/17/05, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote:> iface eth1 inet dhcp> address 192.168.0.22> auto eth0> iface eth0 inet dhcp>   address 192.168.0.20I could be missing something but why do you specify DHCP as well as a static address?I thought these options were mut

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-16 Thread Marty
Anthony Campbell wrote: iface eth1 inet dhcp address 192.168.0.22 auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp address 192.168.0.20 I could be missing something but why do you specify DHCP as well as a static address? I thought these options were mutually exclusive and I'm surprised you

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-16 Thread Florian Dorpmueller
Well, I was afraid I was going on a bit, but anyway: -- Laptop: # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-16 Thread Clive Menzies
On (16/09/05 18:20), Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 16 Sep 2005, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > [snip] > > > > It looks as if the router does NAT between the wireless and the wired > > segments. > > Can you configure the router to do bridging ? > > > > Frank > > I don't think so. There is nothing about

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Sep 2005, Frank Gevaerts wrote: [snip] > > It looks as if the router does NAT between the wireless and the wired > segments. > Can you configure the router to do bridging ? > > Frank I don't think so. There is nothing about it in the manual as far as I can see. Perhaps I need a differen

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-16 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 02:43:43PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 16 Sep 2005, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (16/09/05 12:13), Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > Under LAN IP setting, the entry for "Use Router as DHCP server" is > > > ticked. The help file says: > > > > > > Use Router As DHCP Server

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Sep 2005, Florian Dorpmueller wrote: > >I'm very grateful to everyone for their suggestions but I'm starting to > >think it's about time to give up :-( > > Don´t give up! Linux computers are designed to work in networks. > Please be so kind to post the complete contents of your > /etc/netwo

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-16 Thread Florian Dorpmueller
I'm very grateful to everyone for their suggestions but I'm starting to think it's about time to give up :-( Don´t give up! Linux computers are designed to work in networks. Please be so kind to post the complete contents of your /etc/network/interfaces again here. Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Sep 2005, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (16/09/05 12:13), Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Under LAN IP setting, the entry for "Use Router as DHCP server" is > > ticked. The help file says: > > > > Use Router As DHCP Server > > > > The MR814v2 router is set up by default as a DHCP (Dynamic Host > >

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-16 Thread Clive Menzies
On (16/09/05 12:13), Anthony Campbell wrote: > Under LAN IP setting, the entry for "Use Router as DHCP server" is > ticked. The help file says: > > Use Router As DHCP Server > > The MR814v2 router is set up by default as a DHCP (Dynamic Host > Configuration Protocol) server, which provides the TC

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Sep 2005, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (15/09/05 17:10), Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 15 Sep 2005, Clive Menzies wrote: > > > On (15/09/05 15:18), Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > I've struggled with this one for months! Much perusing of HOWTOs and > > > > googling hasn't helped. > > > > > > >

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-16 Thread Clive Menzies
On (15/09/05 17:10), Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 15 Sep 2005, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (15/09/05 15:18), Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > I've struggled with this one for months! Much perusing of HOWTOs and > > > googling hasn't helped. > > > > > > I have two computers, desktop and laptop, and a

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Sep 2005, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya anthony > > On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > desktop: > > > > /etc/hosts: > > > > 127.0.0.1 localhost loopback > > 192.168.0.20arcadia.acampbell.org.uk arcadia > > arcadia.acupuncturecourse.org.uk accampbell.uklinux.net > > 1

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-15 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya anthony On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: > desktop: > > /etc/hosts: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost loopback > 192.168.0.20arcadia.acampbell.org.uk arcadia > arcadia.acupuncturecourse.org.uk accampbell.uklinux.net > 192.168.0.22 thinkpad ibm for testing, change all that ..

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-15 Thread Roel Schroeven
Anthony Campbell schreef: > It's a Netgear MR814 router. The ethernet cable from the PC goes to a > local port on the router and the internet port on the router goes to the > modem. The laptop communicates with the router by wireless. Can you ping from both machines to the gateway? Some routers

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Sep 2005, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > firewall (shorewall) does not help. > > ping localhost is 100% guaranteed to work ... as long as 127.0.0.1 is in > /etc/hosts and you do use /etc/hosts in your /etc/resolv.conf > > - ping of it'

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Sep 2005, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (15/09/05 15:18), Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I've struggled with this one for months! Much perusing of HOWTOs and > > googling hasn't helped. > > > > I have two computers, desktop and laptop, and a wireless router and ADSL > > modem. Both machines reach t

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-15 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I have two computers, desktop and laptop, and a wireless router and ADSL > modem. Both machines reach the internet without problems, one via a > cable link to the modem, the other via a wireless link to the router. If I understand you correctly, your LAN looks like +-

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-15 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 15 Sep 2005, Thomas Adam wrote: > > > > --- Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I've struggled with this one for months! Much perusing of HOWTOs and > > > googling hasn't helped. tooo much effort :-) ... but good .. thanx fo

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Sep 2005, Thomas Adam wrote: > > --- Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've struggled with this one for months! Much perusing of HOWTOs and > > googling hasn't helped. > > I'm not surprised, as it's quite a specific issue, and doesn't really > illustrate any one possible po

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-15 Thread Clive Menzies
On (15/09/05 15:18), Anthony Campbell wrote: > I've struggled with this one for months! Much perusing of HOWTOs and > googling hasn't helped. > > I have two computers, desktop and laptop, and a wireless router and ADSL > modem. Both machines reach the internet without problems, one via a > cable l

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-15 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 03:18:43PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I've struggled with this one for months! Much perusing of HOWTOs and > googling hasn't helped. > > I have two computers, desktop and laptop, and a wireless router and ADSL > modem. Both machines reach the internet without problems

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-15 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've struggled with this one for months! Much perusing of HOWTOs and > googling hasn't helped. I'm not surprised, as it's quite a specific issue, and doesn't really illustrate any one possible point of failure. > I have two computers, desktop a

RE: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-15 Thread Florian Dorpmueller
Is what I'm trying to do even possible? Or am I missing something obvious? Have you made your mind up because of the operation type of your network? Peer-to-peer or ad-hoc mode: This mode is a method for wireless devices to directly communicate with each other. Operating in ad-hoc mode allows