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On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> I am now online with BL2 using a laptop with wireless card, wireless
> router, and network cable to the desktop which has a modem connection,
> thanks to James.  This is the only of three routers that worked with
> udhcpc and told me it is 192.168.1.100.

I don't think I contributed very much but if some of my input helped I'm 
glad to hear it.

> I have a Asante router (bridge) with serial port that should let me do
> something via nullmodem cable (how?), with IP number written on it, that
> does not do udhcpc at present.  It did not respond to lynx using that IP
> number.

I'd try telnetting to that IP via the nullmodem cable. Or maybe ssh. I 
have no idea what you'd use for login info, though. Is this a wifi device?

Keep us posted on your success. Sounds like maybe the crucial thing in 
getting the initial setup working is telling the laptop the address of the 
gateway. The router doesn't know the gateway's address: it knows the IP of 
your desktop, but it doesn't know it's the gateway. The router is likely 
hard-wired to automatically get gateway information through the WAN/uplink 
port which, as I understand it, you have no cable hooked to. So far as it 
knows, it's on a gateway-less network. But the router can relay any 
internet requests sent from the laptop to the desktop--requests the laptop 
knows should be sent to your desktop's IP, which the laptop sees as the 
gateway. If I've understood correctly, this is how it's all working.

James