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Landy Roman

21 Mar 2002 21 Mar '02

23:42

how are people configuring the linksys routers if the software that comes with them is for windows

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Robert C. Paulsen Jr.

22 Mar 22 Mar

00:09

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On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 06:42:42PM -0500, Landy Roman wrote:

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how are people configuring the linksys routers if the software that comes with them is for windows

I don't have a Linksys router, but I think it is configurable vi a web page. (The router contains a web server.) Try pointing your browser at: http://192.168.1.1/ Check the Linksys manual for ID and password. If you can't get to that web page, you probably need to reconfigure your networking. Perhaps the easiest way is to use YaST2 to set your network to get its IP address automatically via DHCP. The Linksys router acts as a DHCP server and will supply a good IP and the DHCP client on your SuSE system will set up the networking to work with the Linksys. The first time you do this, you may need to issue the following as root: rcdhclient restart -- Robert C. Paulsen, Jr. robert@paulsenonline.net old -> paulsen@texas.net

SuSEnixER

00:43

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* Robert C. Paulsen Jr. [03-21-02 19:10]:

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On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 06:42:42PM -0500, Landy Roman wrote:

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how are people configuring the linksys routers if the software that comes with them is for windows

I don't have a Linksys router, but I think it is configurable vi a web page. (The router contains a web server.)

Try pointing your browser at:

http://192.168.1.1/

I believe that it is http://192.168.0.1 (at least on my router). -- Pat Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 Registered at: http://counter.li.org 7:42pm up 4 days, 2:58, 6 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00

Kevin McLauchlan

15:16

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On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 19:09, Robert C. Paulsen Jr. wrote: [snippety-doo-dah]

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If you can't get to that web page, you probably need to reconfigure your networking. Perhaps the easiest way is to use YaST2 to set your network to get its IP address automatically via DHCP. The Linksys router acts as a DHCP server and will supply a good IP and the DHCP client on your SuSE system will set up the networking to work with the Linksys.

The first time you do this, you may need to issue the following as root:

rcdhclient restart

Wow, I wish I'd known about that last bit when I had my connection decide to go away (and it was YaST2 that did it to me, against my wishes...) Maybe 'rcdhclient restart' might have been the thing to save me from wiping my drive and installing SuSE 7.3 from scratch. Or not... I had made the horrible mistake of walking through a dial-up setup in YaST, so that I could see the same dialogs the my distant brother was seeing as he tried to do the same. Even though I exited before (what I thought was) the point that YaST would save the config, it saved it anyway and blew away my ethernet device (apparently stripping it bodily from the kernel) and taking the opportunity to also get rid of my (formerly working) sound configuration. Then, both YaST2 and YaST1 refused (gleefully and spitefully, it seemed at the time) to offer me any way to say "make ethernet-ness happen again". So, of course, I could never get to my D-Link box (similar to LinkSys). I got a few responses from this list (thanks, guys), but never saw any reference to 'rcdhclient restart' at that time. Oh well. Maybe someday I'll encounter a problem twice in a row, and can add a solution to my repertoire that doesn't involve total re-installation of Linux. :-) Aw, s**t, I'm whining again, aren't I. -- Kevin McLauchlan Chrysalis-ITS, Inc. "Ultimate Trust(TM)"

Doug McGarrett

00:55

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The configuration is run from a browser. I configured mine from Windows Netscape, but I don't know why you couldn't use Linux Opera, if you wanted to. As far as I remember, you just access the router as if it were a site, and you set it up from there. It could care less if you were Windows, or IE, or Netscape, or whatever. It's been a while, but I don't know why it would have changed. --doug, wa2say At 18:42 03/21/2002 -0500, Landy Roman wrote:

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how are people configuring the linksys routers if the software that comes with them is for windows

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Bryan Tyson

08:28

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On Thursday 21 March 2002 18:42, Landy Roman wrote:

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how are people configuring the linksys routers if the software that comes with them is for windows

I have a LinkSys router, and it can be configured via web browser. No windows software required. *************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson@earthlink.net ***************************************************

Jerry Feldman

14:02

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Configuration has already been answered, but the flashing of its firmware has not. You can upgrade the firmware from their help menu. I have not tried it. I generally boot into Windows, and use the utility supplied with the firmware. BTW: The user guide can be obtained from the Linksys web site: http://www.linksys.com/Products/product.asp?grid=23&prid=20 On 21 Mar 2002 at 18:42, Landy Roman wrote:

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how are people configuring the linksys routers if the software that comes with them is for windows

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Landy Roman

23 Mar 23 Mar

14:25

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On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:02:16 -0500 "Jerry Feldman" wrote:

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Configuration has already been answered, but the flashing of its firmware has not. You can upgrade the firmware from their help menu. I have not tried it. I generally boot into Windows, and use the utility supplied with the firmware. BTW: The user guide can be obtained from the Linksys web site: http://www.linksys.com/Products/product.asp?grid=23&prid=20

i did not see the one there for linux, its a zip file and the driver is exe extension

Jerry Feldman

25 Mar 25 Mar

18:29

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.zip files can be extracted in SuSE. The actual firmware is in the file, code.bin, which can be uploaded to the Linksys router using a tftp client.Someone else on this list mentioned the name of a KDE applet, I believe that a tftp client is also available for the command line. On 23 Mar 2002 at 9:25, Landy Roman wrote:

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On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:02:16 -0500 "Jerry Feldman" wrote:

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Configuration has already been answered, but the flashing of its firmware has not. You can upgrade the firmware from their help menu. I have not tried it. I generally boot into Windows, and use the utility supplied with the firmware. BTW: The user guide can be obtained from the Linksys web site: http://www.linksys.com/Products/product.asp?grid=23&prid=20

i did not see the one there for linux, its a zip file and the driver is exe extension

-- Jerry Feldman Portfolio Partner Engineering 508-467-4315 http://www.testdrive.compaq.com/linux/ Compaq Computer Corp. 200 Forest Street MRO1-3/F1 Marlboro, Ma. 01752

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