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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] mac
  • Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 03:01:35 +0000 (UTC)

On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, James Miller wrote:

I think you've gone about this fundamentally wrong. It sounds like this
router you've plugged into runs a dhcp server. That's what

info, Lease of 192.168.1.46 obtained, lease time 86400

means to me, anyway. That means you don't need to ifconfig anything--udhcp
is doing that for you. I think you took an unecessary step by doing
Yes, this time we did ifconfig and we could not go online, but I did udhcpc and it worked. \




then ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1>
This seems to be unnecessary but it did not hurt.
Adding that address before eth0 gets assigned an address by the router (which is 192,168,1,46, btw) is only going to foul things up. Reboot, run the pcmcia start script, then run udhcpc. That's it. Don't ifconfig anything. Then, you should be able to run httpd from whatever directory and, having made note of the address the router assigned you (like "info, Lease of 192.168.1.46 obtained, lease time 86400"), try accessing that address from the XP machine. The other way to try this is to use
I tried to access my computer as 192.168.1.1 and got the DSL provider instead. Jim just took over the laptop computer so I can't try using httpd. Maybe next week I can try again.
>
the samba client package Steven put together. You can access the XP's
filesystem that way if you know its IP address. I tested this package
I was told the IP address for the machine (the friend's name plus a number)
and succeeded transferring to and from an XP machine, so it will work. You'll have to search the archives for particulars though. I posted all my testing info there, but don't remember much of it off the top of my head. You should be able to find fairly comprehensive directions, if you want to go that route rather than the httpd route.
httpd sounds simpler, once I get the correct number.

Ping 192.168.1.46 works, as does pinging my own computer.

You're pinging yourself.
I could also ping 192.168.1.1 - what was I pinging then?

I have not been able to use IE to access 192.168.1.1 - it got me to some other website.


That's probably the router's admin panel. Usually you can admin these firewall/routers via a web interface. They run a little webserver you have to log into using your web browser to do admin stuff.
It was the name of the DSL provider and something about a profile and password. I don't want to fiddle with someone's DSL connection.

To access the DSL line I only needed to plug in the cable between my laptop and the ethernet hub, /etc/pcmcia/start, ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 (or udhcpc might have been enough), and I was then on the network just as if I had dialed.

For the ethernet connection to the DSL modem, we would >use the static IP number of this computer, right? Is there also some way to do

Most networks run a dhcp server, so forget in general about ifconfig'ing.
Always try running udhcpc first. If that doesn't get you an address
assigned from a dhcp server on the network, then try ifconfig'ing.


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