I am at home and having severe frustration trying to get my (10.0) laptop to connect - or even see- my Win2K desktop (and the shared drives/printers contained). In fact I cannot ping it even by IP. Of course, I can always ping and utilize resources on my laptop from the desktop. Thinking maybe it had something to do with the wireless network, I plugged in the ethernet cable to the back of my laptop. (When at work, I use only ethernet cat5 on the laptop, since there's no wifi available.) However, the wireless NIC (eth1) seems to have jumped all over the wired NIC (eth0) and I can't seem to figure a way to switch them. What should I do. KInternet seems to have no options for switching. -- kai www.perfectreign.com linux - genuine windows replacement part
On Friday 17 February 2006 10:08, kai wrote:
I am at home and having severe frustration trying to get my (10.0) laptop to connect - or even see- my Win2K desktop (and the shared drives/printers contained). In fact I cannot ping it even by IP.
Of course, I can always ping and utilize resources on my laptop from the desktop.
Thinking maybe it had something to do with the wireless network, I plugged in the ethernet cable to the back of my laptop. (When at work, I use only ethernet cat5 on the laptop, since there's no wifi available.)
However, the wireless NIC (eth1) seems to have jumped all over the wired NIC (eth0) and I can't seem to figure a way to switch them.
What should I do. KInternet seems to have no options for switching.
Start KInternet > right-click on tray icon > interface > select wifi or wired card. If you do not have both cards listed, check your Yast setup for network devices. Always worked for me when I had both cards. I also setup both cards in Yast. KInternet > Settings > Various Settings allows you to set the card you want as default on KInternet startup. One other thought - Check your hosts and lmhosts files on both OS's. Hope this helps. Bernd
On Friday 17 February 2006 11:29 am, bernd wrote:
Start KInternet > right-click on tray icon > interface > select wifi or wired card. If you do not have both cards listed, check your Yast setup for network devices.
Very strange - only the one card is listed. AFAIK, when at work, only eth0 is listed. At home, only eth1 is listed. I do have them both up in YaST and both set to DHCP. Would it be that they have different MAC addresses? It just occured to me that in addition to the WEP security I lock the network by MAC.
Always worked for me when I had both cards. I also setup both cards in Yast.
KInternet > Settings > Various Settings allows you to set the card you want as default on KInternet startup.
One other thought - Check your hosts and lmhosts files on both OS's.
Yeah, the HOSTS file was FUBAR on the Win2K machine. Had a bunch of invalid entries. LMHOSTS doesn't exist - only the LMHOSTS.SAM file. I did a which hosts and which lmhosts on the laptop and didn't find anything. I tried to use locate, but that came back "command not found". -- kai www.perfectreign.com linux - genuine windows replacement part
On Friday 17 February 2006 14:23, kai wrote:
On Friday 17 February 2006 11:29 am, bernd wrote:
Start KInternet > right-click on tray icon > interface > select wifi or wired card. If you do not have both cards listed, check your Yast setup for network devices.
Very strange - only the one card is listed. AFAIK, when at work, only eth0 is listed. At home, only eth1 is listed.
On the same machine? Do you have different desktop profiles for work and home? Listed where? In Yast?
I do have them both up in YaST and both set to DHCP. Would it be that they have different MAC addresses? It just occured to me that in addition to the WEP security I lock the network by MAC.
Each card has a unique MAC address. Check in Yast for "Hardware Details" for each card. Configuration Name lists the MAC address as eth-id-<MAC address>, or do ifconfig for each card, eth0, eth1. The HWaddr is the MAC.
Always worked for me when I had both cards. I also setup both cards in Yast.
KInternet > Settings > Various Settings allows you to set the card you want as default on KInternet startup.
One other thought - Check your hosts and lmhosts files on both OS's.
Yeah, the HOSTS file was FUBAR on the Win2K machine. Had a bunch of invalid entries. LMHOSTS doesn't exist - only the LMHOSTS.SAM file.
The IP entries should be the same on both machines for these files. In Windoze: hosts and lmhosts.sam are found in drive:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc; in Linux: /etc/hosts and /etc/samba/lmhosts.
I did a which hosts and which lmhosts on the laptop and didn't find anything. I tried to use locate, but that came back "command not found".
Permission problem with locate. Try to su. Hope this helps. Bernd
On Friday 17 February 2006 03:57 pm, bernd wrote:
Very strange - only the one card is listed. AFAIK, when at work, only eth0 is listed. At home, only eth1 is listed.
On the same machine? Do you have different desktop profiles for work and home? Listed where? In Yast?
No, on KInternet. I only have one profile setup. Should I setup two?
I do have them both up in YaST and both set to DHCP. Would it be that they have different MAC addresses? It just occured to me that in addition to the WEP security I lock the network by MAC.
Each card has a unique MAC address. Check in Yast for "Hardware Details" for each card. Configuration Name lists the MAC address as eth-id-<MAC address>, or do ifconfig for each card, eth0, eth1. The HWaddr is the MAC.
Okay, I'll have to open up the router to the other MAC address and see what happens.
Always worked for me when I had both cards. I also setup both cards in Yast.
KInternet > Settings > Various Settings allows you to set the card you want as default on KInternet startup.
One other thought - Check your hosts and lmhosts files on both OS's.
Yeah, the HOSTS file was FUBAR on the Win2K machine. Had a bunch of invalid entries. LMHOSTS doesn't exist - only the LMHOSTS.SAM file.
The IP entries should be the same on both machines for these files. In Windoze: hosts and lmhosts.sam are found in drive:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc; in Linux: /etc/hosts and /etc/samba/lmhosts.
Also drive:\WINNT\... (I refuse to to to WinXP.)
I did a which hosts and which lmhosts on the laptop and didn't find anything. I tried to use locate, but that came back "command not found".
Permission problem with locate. Try to su.
Heh - it would also help if I had the findutils package installed. <sheepish grin>
Hope this helps.
Yes, thanks!! -- kai www.perfectreign.com linux - genuine windows replacement part
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