[opensuse] Any experience with powerline 1.0.1 Homeplug networking - develo or acer or other?
Hi! Is there anybody who can advise on how to get ethernet cable networking via powerline plug running? I have Susue 10.2, NiC works fine with direct network cable connection to the router. Now replacing link with Acer Homeplug - no success. Direct cable - ping to router responds - plug in the powerline : Ping is no longer successful - replug the long cable - ping is successful. Do I need to set up any other item such as bridge or other setup? Peter (PS it all works fine with Win98 and XP) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 04 March 2007 07:29, Peter Breger wrote:
Hi! Is there anybody who can advise on how to get ethernet cable networking via powerline plug running? I have Susue 10.2, NiC works fine with direct network cable connection to the router. Now replacing link with Acer Homeplug - no success. Direct cable - ping to router responds - plug in the powerline : Ping is no longer successful - replug the long cable - ping is successful. Do I need to set up any other item such as bridge or other setup? Peter (PS it all works fine with Win98 and XP)
I think it is worth to report a bug. BTW, what is the model and manufacturer of the adapter, so that I can look at. -- Regards, Rajko. http://en.opensuse.org/Portal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Rajko M. wrote:
On Sunday 04 March 2007 07:29, Peter Breger wrote:
Hi! Is there anybody who can advise on how to get ethernet cable networking via powerline plug running? I have Susue 10.2, NiC works fine with direct network cable connection to the router. Now replacing link with Acer Homeplug - no success. Direct cable - ping to router responds - plug in the powerline : Ping is no longer successful - replug the long cable - ping is successful. Do I need to set up any other item such as bridge or other setup? Peter (PS it all works fine with Win98 and XP)
I think it is worth to report a bug. BTW, what is the model and manufacturer of the adapter, so that I can look at.
The Homeplug is an ACER Homeplug, apparently fully 1.0.1 compatible. The network card is an old model 3Com 3c900B-TPO Etherlink Cyclone rev 04 card. It loads the 3c59x module, which as far as I can check from Linux books is correct. Had a google search on the subject and found all matter of things on 'powerline bridgees', and a tool plconfig. But I am not so sure that this is what is needed. Also, company develo have a softwar efor Linux to set up the adapter. But then I have set it up already using my Windows machine, so the adapter should be fine? Afterall how would a hardware router know anything about a homeplug... Thanks for the support! Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 04 March 2007 14:24, Peter Breger wrote:
The Homeplug is an ACER Homeplug, apparently fully 1.0.1 compatible. The network card is an old model 3Com 3c900B-TPO Etherlink Cyclone rev 04 card. It loads the 3c59x module, which as far as I can check from Linux books is correct.
It is correct module.
Had a google search on the subject and found all matter of things on 'powerline bridgees', and a tool plconfig. But I am not so sure that this is what is needed. Also, company developer have a software for Linux to set up the adapter. But then I have set it up already using my Windows machine, so the adapter should be fine? Afterall how would a hardware router know anything about a homeplug...
I looked in setup manual on Acer web site and it seems to be one time password setup to keep your conversation private. Now when I know a bit more I can rule out many reasons. Looking for network problems in Novell bugzilla there is quite a few references on problems with Network Manager. Can you try to select classic method with ifup during reconfiguration in YaST and see if configuration will survive reboot. -- Regards, Rajko. http://en.opensuse.org/Portal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 04 March 2007 21:42, Rajko M. wrote: Looking bugs on bugzilla takes some time. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=189655 in this old bug you can see card with similar name and the same Linux driver producing the same sort of problems. -- Regards, Rajko. http://en.opensuse.org/Portal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Rajko M. wrote:
On Sunday 04 March 2007 14:24, Peter Breger wrote:
The Homeplug is an ACER Homeplug, apparently fully 1.0.1 compatible. The network card is an old model 3Com 3c900B-TPO Etherlink Cyclone rev 04 card. It loads the 3c59x module, which as far as I can check from Linux books is correct.
It is correct module.
Had a google search on the subject and found all matter of things on 'powerline bridgees', and a tool plconfig. But I am not so sure that this is what is needed. Also, company developer have a software for Linux to set up the adapter. But then I have set it up already using my Windows machine, so the adapter should be fine? Afterall how would a hardware router know anything about a homeplug...
I looked in setup manual on Acer web site and it seems to be one time password setup to keep your conversation private.
Quite, so that is why I discounted the software. Afterall, the XP laptop does not know anything about the password either, nor my old win98 machine.
Now when I know a bit more I can rule out many reasons.
Looking for network problems in Novell bugzilla there is quite a few references on problems with Network Manager. Can you try to select classic method with ifup during reconfiguration in YaST and see if configuration will survive reboot.
Ifup makes no difference, also tried safeboot text runlevel (3?). No luck - always DHCP goes ".... waiting" Mmh bugzilla - Now that is indeed interesting - I shall dig out another NIC from an old pc in the house and maybe get some better response there. For that matter I tried all these warm and cold reboots - no change in behaviour. Regards, Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Peter Breger wrote:
Rajko M. wrote:
On Sunday 04 March 2007 14:24, Peter Breger wrote:
The Homeplug is an ACER Homeplug, apparently fully 1.0.1 compatible. The network card is an old model 3Com 3c900B-TPO Etherlink Cyclone rev 04 card. It loads the 3c59x module, which as far as I can check from Linux books is correct.
It is correct module.
Now when I know a bit more I can rule out many reasons. Looking for network problems in Novell bugzilla there is quite a few references on problems with Network Manager. Can you try to select classic method with ifup during reconfiguration in YaST and see if configuration will survive reboot.
Ifup makes no difference, also tried safeboot text runlevel (3?). No luck - always DHCP goes ".... waiting"
Thanks for the bugzilla tip !!! Plundered another pc - and with a Belkin NiC it works. It seems to boot ok, DHCP responds and web pages open via the LAN and router as they should!!! So it is the 3Com 3c900B-TPO Etherlink Cyclone rev 04 card which behaves strangely. I guess this is a case for a bug report then. Thanks for all the help and support - now comes the next lesson in Linux! Like where do I submit bug reports... ;-) ( but I have learnt where config files are kept and a few bash commands... ;-) ) The next project is to find a low resource GUI as KDE seems too hard for the old 350MHz 192Mb machine to cope with... Regards, Peter
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* Peter Breger <peter.breger@skynet.be> [03-05-07 16:13]: [...]
The next project is to find a low resource GUI as KDE seems too hard for the old 350MHz 192Mb machine to cope with...
You would probably like xfce4. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 OpenSUSE Linux http://en.opensuse.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 05 March 2007 15:10, Peter Breger wrote:
Peter Breger wrote: .... Thanks for the bugzilla tip !!! Plundered another pc - and with a Belkin NiC it works. It seems to boot ok, DHCP responds and web pages open via the LAN and router as they should!!!
So it is the 3Com 3c900B-TPO Etherlink Cyclone rev 04 card which behaves strangely. I guess this is a case for a bug report then.
It is.
Thanks for all the help and support - now comes the next lesson in Linux! Like where do I submit bug reports... ;-) ( but I have learnt where config files are kept and a few bash commands... ;-) )
Use the same link, click on login and when login screen comes, click on create an account. Fill the from, select username and password and go back to bugzilla. I would add explanation to the bug that already exists, the one in the link.
The next project is to find a low resource GUI as KDE seems too hard for the old 350MHz 192Mb machine to cope with...
Regards, Peter
See Patrick's advice, it is on the 10.2 DVD. -- Regards, Rajko. http://en.opensuse.org/Portal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Peter Breger wrote:
Hi! Is there anybody who can advise on how to get ethernet cable networking via powerline plug running? I have Susue 10.2, NiC works fine with direct network cable connection to the router. Now replacing link with Acer Homeplug - no success. Direct cable - ping to router responds - plug in the powerline : Ping is no longer successful - replug the long cable - ping is successful. Do I need to set up any other item such as bridge or other setup? Peter (PS it all works fine with Win98 and XP)
Hi, Since two years now, I am relying on two devolo microlink dLan ethernet plugs to transfer data from my wireless router (that connects to my internet provider's wlan) in the second floor to my network in the basement. Works transparently and reliably since then. Also acts transparently and without any setup with windows, linux and anything else. I would check whether your power line works ok. Maybe you go to a plug near your router, where it will work ok and then work your way backwards from there? regards Eberhard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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