On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 12:37 -0600, Donald D Henson wrote:
Donald D Henson wrote:
I've given up on getting my wireless lan card to work but am now confronted with another networking problem. I'm hoping someone can help. In V9.3, I was able, by some magical process, to assign a fixed IP address for use in my small local network and, at the same time, use DHCP provided by my ISP to go outside my local network to the Internet. I don't seem to be able to "do the magic" under 10.0. I'm either missing a critical step or the system has been changed. Here's my setup:
The problem seems to have been an IP address conflict between DHCP and static IP addresses. Thanks to all for helping find the problem.
-- Donald D. Henson, Managing Director West El Paso Information Network The "Non-Initiation of Force Principle" Rules
I'm glad I could contribute you to solve your problem. But one thing, in case you encounter another problem like this.... DHCP is client/server protocol. In your case, your ISP is running DHCP server and Linksys's Internetside(or WAN side) is running DHCP client to get an IP address from the ISP. On the other hand, the Linksys is also running DHCP server on LAN side(192.168.1.x) to provide DHCP service to your PCs that run DHCP client to get one of 192.168.1.x addresses. When you mentioned DHCP setting in Yast, you probably meant DHCP client setting under Network Devices->Network Card (I may be mistaken for the menu of 10.0. I'm still running 9.3s). Don't get confused with DHCP server. The server setting for SuSE is under Network Services->DHCP Server. It's the function that the SuSE can provide IP addresses to the other LAN devices. In your application, no need for DHCP server on any of you PCs including your Laptop. The Linksys has taken care of it. Toshi