If you don't wish to be patronising, then don't BE patronising. Assume that I am as competent with the hardware as you are.
Liam Proven wrote: > Rowan, it seems to me that the good-natured suggestions of people > trying to be helpful here aren't getting you anywhere. > > Here is an overview of the situation, as we understand it, trying > "blind" to work out what's going on. > > [1] The HomeHub has an Ethernet port. So does your Linux PC. > [2] Now, normally, Ethernet requires little to no configuration. What > should happen is this: > [2a] you plug a cable into the H/hub > [2b] you plug the other end into your PC. The link light should then > come on, usually, green. Shortly afterwards, the traffic light should > come on, often yellow and flickering as information flows. > [2c] The PC gets given an Internet address automatically by the H/hub. > This usually requires no intervention from you and no configuration. > Most routers use the official private range, 192.168.x.y where /x/ and > /y/ are numbers in the range 1 to 254, e.g. 192.168.0.1 or > 192.168.1.1. The H/hub has one number - often the lowest, either > 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1 - and the PC gets another, similar number > with the last octet - the digits after the 3rd & last dot - different, > e.g. 192.168.1.23 > [3] That's it. You're online. > > All the mucking around with setup CDs and things is marketing > b*ll*cks, basically. It's not needed. > > Now, we need to know at which stage this process is failing for you. > It sounds like you have a problem at stage 2b: getting a link. We've > more or less established that Linux knows you have a network port and > that means it should be working. If it doesn't appear in the Ubuntu > status bar, it is because nothing is connected to it and it's not > "live". > > Things you could try: > > - a different Ethernet cable. > - try the same cable but with the ends reversed: put the hub end in > the PC and the PC end in the hub. > - try the same cable in another PC to see if that works as it should. > (I am not sure from what you've written if you've done this already. > You say that your Windows machine can connect, yes? Is that using the > same cable?) > - try to borrow another router or something similar to see if another > device gets a link light and an IP address. For testing, it doesn't > matter if this other router is configured for your Internet connection > or even attached to it - just plugged into the mains and turned on > should be enough. > > Without wishing to be patronising, are you 100% sure you have a > proper, good, known-working Ethernet cable? It is possible to use a US > telephone lead - they will plug into Ethernet ports and even click > into place, but they won't work. The plugs are similar but the US > telephone one is smaller. > > Normal Ethernet plugs are called RJ45 connectors: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ethernet_RJ45_connector_p1160054.jpg > > US telephone connectors are type RJ11: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rj11_connector.jpg > > They are very similar. You will probably find that your Homehub > connects to the microfilter in your telephone socket with an RJ11 > cable. Using RJ11s by mistake is a common problem. > > It won't help, but if you right-click on the top panel, pick "add to > panel" and add the Network Monitor applet, you will get a permanent > network-status indicator that appears even if the link is down. That > might help. > > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
