Guys, if you're not gonna help, just say so, but don't be an ass wipe
about it.
Why is it any time I have a basic problem, you all are more! than
willing to help, but if I have something like this that is more
advanced, you all make smart butt remarks! Frankly, I'm growing real
sick of it!
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
*From:* george b <mailto:gbma...@gmail.com>
*To:* macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
<mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
*Sent:* Sunday, April 26, 2015 5:03 PM
*Subject:* RE: Major trouble with internet: Warning: not for the
basic user!
Well then get a new office
*From:*macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
<mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of
*Christopher-Mark Gilland
*Sent:* Sunday, April 26, 2015 13:58
*To:* macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
<mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
*Subject:* Re: Major trouble with internet: Warning: not for the
basic user!
It's not quite that easy. If you saw how my office was configured,
there is no room to set up another table. Don't you think if it was
that easy, I would have already thought of that by now? I'm not
that far blown, with all due respect. This desk I am using extends
all the way from one wall all the way to the other side of the room
nearly. So I can't put a table on the right side, as the wall is
right there. I can't scoot the desk to my left to make room, as
then, it's coverring the door entry to the room. I don't understand
why every time I bring up a network problem, people always fail to
realize that perhaps my setup won't allow this to happen with
getting new furnature.
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
*From:*Greg Aikens <mailto:gpaik...@gmail.com>
*To:*macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
<mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
*Sent:*Sunday, April 26, 2015 4:15 PM
*Subject:*Re: Major trouble with internet: Warning: not for the
basic user!
Get a small table to set next to your desk for the receiver.
Seriously, $5 at Salvation Army or something.
On Apr 26, 2015, at 3:58 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland
<clgillan...@gmail.com <mailto:clgillan...@gmail.com>> wrote:
As I said in my subject, I don't want to turn anyone off
from reading this e-mail. If you genuinely think you can
help, just know, no suggestion is stupid. Especially
considerring that I've tried everything under the son. At
this point, I'm willing to try literally just about anything
including throwing the mac across the room, then screaming! LOL!
So, a little bit of very brief background. I have a Dell
computer which apparently has just bitten the dust. It's
about 10 years old. This really isn't rellavent more so
than to say I just put it in storage until I figure out
what to do with it. I also have a Yamaha hifi
dolby/prologic surround sound 5.1 receiver. This receiver
has an ethernet port on the back of it which allows you to
connect it to an internet wired connection for things like
Pandora, Spottify, etc. Get to the point, Chris, you say. I
am, I am, I promise. Stick with me on this. Just hear me
out for a sec as this is actually incredibly rellavant to my
problem.
So, here's the issue. The receiver doesn't have wifi
capability. It's stricly only able to connect to a network
via a hardwired ethernet connection. Well, this would be
all fine and dandy except for one thing.
I don't have room on my desk with my router to set the
receiver up. Therefore, I had to set the receiver up across
the room beside that old busted Dell machine. Due to home
regulations set by my landlord, I cannot tack anything to
the walls, nor use double sided tape, or anything of the
sort, nor can I tack anything across my ceiling. Therefore,
there went using a token ringed topology, let alone a PTP
host/client configuration. Therefore, what I was doing was
connecting via wifi to my home network's router across the
room. This supplied internet connectivity to me on the Dell
machine. Then what I did was, I ran an ethernet cable from
the on board ethernet port on the back of the Dell tower to
the ethernet port on my Yamaha receiver. Then, finally, in
Windows XP, I was able to go under Control Panel, Networks,
select both my wifi connection as well as my ethernet
connection, hit the application's key, or rather, right
click, same thing, and then select bridge connection from
the context menu. Once done, it made my wifi connection
carry down to my ethernet port. So, in other words, as long
as I have an internet connection on my wifi end, then
whatever got plugged into the ethernet port hardwired used
that exact same connection.
So, now that the Dell system has gone to its grave, and is
there rotting, LOL! just kidding, seriously though, I'm
trying to achieve this same exact thing with Yosemite
10.10.3. No matter what the heck I do though, try as I may,
I just can! not! seem to get this to work.
So far, I went into System Preferences, Sharing. Under
here, I first selected the internet sharing service in the
table. Then, making sure the box in the first column of
that table row was unchecked, I moved down and set the share
from popup button to wifi. Then, in the share to table, I
made sure that the only thing checked was ethernet. Then, I
went back to the services table, checked the box beside the
Internet sharing service, and started up the service.
I should add that all the above things were done while the
ethernet cable was plugged in both to the mac, and to the
receiver.
I then tried getting the receiver to go out online via
internet, but it wouldn't. I wondered if something got
turned off in the receiver's menus, so I tested with an old
laptop I have which doesn't even have wifi ability, only
ethernet. It didn't work there either, so trust me. It's
not the receiver here that's at fault.
I went back to System Prefernces, then to network. I
noticed that the first service in the table was eithernet,
not wifi, even though wifi is my primary means to connect.
Therefore, I went to the actions popup button, and to
service order, I think it's called... something to that
effect. Using the Voiceover's drag and drop abilities, I
dragged the connections around and got them so wifi was
first, then Ethernet was second. This way, wifi takes higher
priority. This didn't fix the issue.
Next, still in network settings, on the ethernet connection,
I noticed though connected, it said that it had a self
assigned IP address, and will not be able to connect to the
internet. The IP address it's showing is: 169.254.105.163.
Obviously, from another machine on my network than the mac,
if I try pinging this address, it times out instantly. I
can't even do a tracert query. It doesn't even complete the
first hop if I do. Under Network Settings on the mac, on
the Ethernet connection in the table, the IPV4 settings are
set to DHCP, however, I tried DHCP with manual address, and
entered that in by hand. I've even tried going to manual in
the popup button, and entering everything totally! by hand
such as the IPV4 address, the router address, the dns server
address, which is the same as my router, being my router is
serving as my DHCP server to all clients on the network.
I've released and renew the dns IP, but it just comes back
to the same IP as above. 169.154.X.X isn't even within the
subnet range of my router, which is within 192.168.X.X. My
router IP is: 192.168.1.1. For future reference, this
router is a Linksys WRT1900AC with Linksys Smart Wifi as its
web admin interface.
I tried turning off internet sharing, rebooting, making sure
no active wifi connection was in progress, and that my
ethernet cable was disconnected from the mac, then turned on
network sharing making sure it was set up from wifi, and to
ethernet. Then, I plugged the ethernet cable back in. NO
good, I still got the self assigned IP listed above. The
169.154.105.163. I tried looking at the mac address
settings on my router, etc. and they all look fine. There
are no conflicting IP's on the network's subnet either. I
made sure when manually enterring things, that my subnet
masc was 255.255.255.0. Still no good.
I've gone in and removed the ethernet service from system
prefs, network, then readding it. My location is set to
automatic, although I tried making a brand new location just
to see if that would help. It didn't.
I created a new user account on the system, logged in as it,
and had the same issue, so it's not an issue with my user
account being corrupted a bit. I ran disc permission
check/repair from the recovery partition, and all was fine
there. When I verified permissions, they all came back as
being perfectly intact correctly.
Finally, at my whit's end, I went into terminal, and executed
ifconfig -l
I noticed that all my network adaptors look correct, and
seem to be functioning.
I then attempted to stop internet sharing with:
sudo launchctl unload -w\
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.InternetSharing.plist
Apparently, that plist file no longer is there in Yosemite
like it was in Mavericks. BTW, I dono if this would a worked
in Yosemite, what I'm trying to do. I never had a need to
try, as back then, I just bridged with my Windows machines.
Finally, I turned off Internet Sharing again from the GUI,
not the CLI. I restarted, then went back to terminal.
I then issued
ifconfig -l
I determined that my ethernet and my wireless adaptors are
on en0, and en1.
Therefore, I typed:
sudo ifconfig bridge create
this created a bridge called bridge0.
I then proceeded to add those two interfaces to the bridge...
sudo ifconfig bridge0 addm en0 addm en1
This seemed to work correctly.
I don't recall where I found the file, but it was under
/etc. I found a conf file which did show the two adapters
attached to the bridge. I know this is really a piss poor
way to do this, as then, I'd have to recreate the bridge,
and re-add the interfaces manually by hand. I'll fix that
later with a cron job which I'll place in the default system
profile via a shell script, but I can't do that until I get
things working to start with. LOL! Right now, doing that
is the least of my concerns!
Anyway, after doing this, I tried to see if I had any
success. Of corse, go figure, I didn't.
So, yeah, I'm totally outta options. I've even gone into my
router and changed the dns/dhcp settings so they matched
what OSX is automatically giving that stupid ethernet
connection. Obviously, this meant having to reconfigure all
other clients on my network which was a royal pain in the
ass! I diddit though, so you can't say I didn't try! Ha
ha. Lord though! Even that! didn't work!
Folks, I'm throwing my hands in the air! I give the heck
up! I dono what's left to do! I literally! have tried
every ***ing thing under the sun that I know to try!
Any thoughts would be profoundly appreciated. If you can
help me get this working, I'm so determined, I'll even be
willing to put a tip on my blog on how to properly set up
bridging, and you better believe I'll give you public credit
by name!
OK guys, have at it! See if you can figure this one out!
Eat your hearts out! LOL!
Chris.
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