I have just installed a Linksys router on my LAN. As I am functionally illiterate with regard to such things (it took me three days and many hours on the telephone to get my Win2000 box working with the router) what is the simplest way for me to get the linux machine on my LAN to communicate with the router?
Oh yes, I have a DSL connection to the internet.
Thanks in advance.
On Wednesday 31 December 2003 14:44, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote:
I have just installed a Linksys router on my LAN. As I am functionally illiterate with regard to such things (it took me three days and many hours on the telephone to get my Win2000 box working with the router) what is the simplest way for me to get the linux machine on my LAN to communicate with the router?
Oh yes, I have a DSL connection to the internet.
Should be rather trivial.
1. Plug the router into the wall, into the DSL modem and plug your linux machine into it.
2. I assume you already have the router on speaking terms with your DSL provider; if not you can do it after you get it on speaking terms with the Linux machine.
3. Go into Yast and configure the ethernet device you will use to speak with the router to be DHCP everything - IP, host name, etc. Click okay and let it run suse config
4. You should be able now to ping the router; look in the quick set up instructions in the box it came in for the router IP address. Open a browser window and type in the IP address, something like
5. You should now be looking at the router's configuration page. Enter your ISP's user name and password and other information it wants and have the router try connecting. It should be that simple.
HTH!
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 08:44:00 -0500, "Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D." s.molnar@sbcglobal.net wrote:
what is the simplest way for me to get the linux machine on my LAN to communicate with the router?
... without any more info [from you], i'm assuming you've set the router to be a DHCP server for the boxes on the backside of the router (LAN side). so, in yast->network-devices->network-card, set it to obtain an IP using DHCP and you should be ready to go.
with my d-link router, i 'call up' its configuration page by using the http://192.168.0.1/ address in my browser. i used to use a linksys - sorry, i've forgetten its address; it might be http://192.168.1.1/ ??? check the linksys docs
On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 09:15, mjt wrote:
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 08:44:00 -0500, "Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D." s.molnar@sbcglobal.net wrote:
what is the simplest way for me to get the linux machine on my LAN to communicate with the router?
... without any more info [from you], i'm assuming you've set the router to be a DHCP server for the boxes on the backside of the router (LAN side). so, in yast->network-devices->network-card, set it to obtain an IP using DHCP and you should be ready to go.
Don't forget to stop and restart SuSEFirewall2 after you reconfigure the ethernet card with YaST.
At 10:57 12/31/2003 -0500, L. Mark Stone wrote:
On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 09:15, mjt wrote:
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 08:44:00 -0500, "Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D."
s.molnar@sbcglobal.net wrote:
what is the simplest way for me to get the linux machine on my LAN to communicate
with
the router?
... without any more info [from you], i'm assuming you've set the router to be a DHCP server for the boxes on the backside of the router (LAN side). so, in yast->network-devices->network-card, set it to obtain an IP using DHCP and you should be ready to go.
Don't forget to stop and restart SuSEFirewall2 after you reconfigure the ethernet card with YaST.
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