On 19/05/13 13:30, george cox wrote:
I have a piece of equipment that when conntected to my cablebox/TV
allows me to view my home TV on any computer from anywhere on the
internet. This device only has a hardwired internet connection so I
use a wireless print-server (it has a 4 ethernet ports that it bridges
to the wireless) to connect the device to my home wireless network.
Friday I changed my internet provider, and needed to reconfigure the
print-server to use the new wireless network.
The problem was I could not get my laptop to connect to the
printer-server (via a hardwired cable). I tried letting my laptop auto
configure, I tried setting the address manually (ifconfig). None of
this worked I could not get connected to the print-server. I turned
off the wireless network on my laptop so the hardwired ethernet was
the only NIC available. When plugging in the ethernet cable, the
network manager would grid away for 3 or 4 minutes but the connection
would always fail.
I bought a my laptop last week and installed wheezy on it. I still
have the old one and have not updated, so it still runs squeeze. I
pulled out my old laptop, plugged-in the ethernet cable to the
print-server and entered the same ifconfig commands to set the IP
address manually and viola, I could connect to the print-server and
modified its settings with no problem.
Any idea why one laptop worked while the other didn't.
As a side note, in the network manager on the old laptop with squeeze,
if you left-clicked one of the options listed there is "auto eth0",
this doesn't seem to exist on the network manager on the new wheezy
laptop. Is there an equivalent function in the wheezy version of the
GUI? I have used "auto eth0" several times to connect to various
hardwired equipment and it comes in handy. Does anyone know exactly
what auto eth0 does to the ethernet port?
Thanks.
George
This could still be a network config issue. An easy way around might
be to connect (wired) both, the print server and the new laptop, to your
router (assuming that the router also acts as the dhcp server, and that both
clients are configured to get their ip address through dhcp). In the
router's log you can then see the connected devices and their
respective IP addresses. Can you connect from laptop to print server now?
Klaus
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