-----Original Message----- From: gclinux [mailto:gclinux@telusplanet.net] Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 12:09 AM To: suse mailing list Subject: [SLE] dlink router & lost internet connectivity
greetings again, the router was purchased new, & it works just perfectly for windows 98 & 2000 (i have a tripple boot system- 98,2000, & suse7.1) just like the installation manual says. but there is no installation guide for linux & the dlink ppl have not responded to my support query yet. i have not been able to find any installation guide for linux at the dlink site although, the product page for the router says it will work with linux. since it works with windows , i'm inclined to think the problem is with how i have my linux setup, but being new to linux i have very little idea of what settings in the yast 2 controll center need to be changed, or if the suse firewall is blocking the connection to the router, or if i need to install some other package off the suse installation disk that has to do with networking? in the windows partitions i can get into the admin page using the default address but in the suse partition using the default address 192.168.0.1 doesn't even get to the admin login page, konquror returns an error message saying that it can't find 192.168.0.1, so again i think it is has something to do with how my suse is configured. i was just hoping that someone one the list has had similar problems getting this router to work & could tell me what settings in suse needed to be changed. On the dlink support pages..other models of dlink routers need to have pppoe(d) enabled in the control center & java as well as javascript enabled in the browser, both of which i have tried but , no luck. there must be another setting (or two) i have to change but where? the learning curve for linux is STEEP
Well, maybe somebody else can help. The D-Link company will not be any help, since the problem is all on your machine. I still think that you have some unneeded stuff between you and the D-Link, and would have the same problem with a LinkSys or other residential hub/router. Turn off the SuSE Firewall for now. If you have not re-configured the D-Link, then it already keeps all unnecessary ports closed, by default. So, you should be relatively safe while you at least get a connection going, without any firewall software to complicate the issue. Turn it on again, later. I haven't used SuSE 7.1 for a couple of years, so I don't remember what YaST would be showing in your case. Wherever there's anything about your connection to the internet (for browsing, mail, whatever), you want it to say that it's a tcp/ip network connection. Not anything else. If SuSE is trying to use other protocols or paths (like, trying to find a modem on the other side of the serial port...) then it will keep doing that instead of just sending packets out through the router. Computers are obstinate. They insist on doing exactly what you tell them. The packets will all build up behind the constantly-failing attempt to reach a dial-up modem on your serial port (if, for example, that's what SuSE thinks it's supposed to be doing when you use your browser), and eventually the bits just spill out on the floor and get your shoes wet. ;-> Some day I'll understand what I've been trying to tell my own computer, and on that magical day, everything will.... work. :-) Good luck, and I hope somebody else can get you going. This should work with minimal setup. /k