On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 06:57:20AM +0100, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > It could be that it's relying on Windows-only drivers - though that's less > likely these days. > > It's probably that the Web page is crafted for Internet Explorer with ActiveX > or some Microsoft quirk. > Borrow a laptop from a neighbour / your friendly computer dealer which runs > Windows to install it and configure it > and do firmware updates - thereafter you may be lucky and find that it "just > works" under Linux. > > I suspect the problem is short sighted manufacturer and bad web interface > ddesigners. > > Andy C > I also have a Billion 7800N and can access the web interface just fine. I use a mixture of Debian stable and Ubuntu 11.04 and it works without problem.
The 7800N has 5 ethernet ports on the back, one of which is set up to be a cable WAN port (with the other four being ports on the gigabit switch). Perhaps you've connected your computer to that WAN port by mistake? Gavin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110804081931.ga...@grassfield.co.uk
