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Old 05-19-2004, 05:39 PM   #1
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just got a router, dont know what im doing


I just got a Linksys router/firewall blah blah blah.
Setting up my wifes xp machine was a breeze, nothing to it. In fact Im using it right now to type this! I just cant figure out what I need to do to get ol slacky to play fetch. I checked the linksys site, i searched the networking forum (all greek to me), I tried re-running the network config though pkgtool. It's just boiled down to the fact that I have no Idea what Im doing.
I can access the router to see the addresses for the LAN and WAN, I see the subnets, the gateways, the ip's. But I just dont know what I need to make note of and/or where to but what.
Haaaaaaaalllllp! LOL
Thanks in advance. Just like everything else so far, its probably easier then I thought it would be, just need some steps on what i need to do.

thanks in advance
 
Old 05-19-2004, 07:00 PM   #2
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well... if it works on a Windows XP computer all you should need to do is set Slackware up to use DHCP and it should work. DHCP is what most if not all routers use to give out all the IPs, Gateways, and other stuff out to the computers. Of course you can set it all up manually if you want but there's really no point.
 
Old 05-19-2004, 07:19 PM   #3
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thats what I thought as well.
I noticed during boot up there was a DHCPCD warning. Something was missing and gave somenthing like (assuming 498whatever seconds) I dunno.
I tried opening mozilla and accessing the routers setup through the IP address in the manual and wouldnt let me in. No user/pass prompt, just told me I wasnt allowed. User and root both. This is wierd.
 
Old 05-19-2004, 08:07 PM   #4
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Yea i get that too... it's normal i guess cause my internet is working just fine. All I did was pick DHCP when I was installing Slackware and my internet just works. I never had to set up anything.
 
Old 05-19-2004, 08:16 PM   #5
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Go to a console and type "ipconfig eth0". This presumes your ethernet interface is eth0.

This will confirm or deny whether slacky successfully recieved an ip address from the router. It should have an address in the same range as the router address, and the gateway should be the address of the router.

If it does, try and ping the router address and see what happens.
 
Old 05-19-2004, 10:07 PM   #6
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ITS FIXED.

power cycled the router and restarted. All is well. Thanks for the helpful posts.
 
Old 05-19-2004, 11:10 PM   #7
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For the record, it's not ipconfig eth0 for Slack. it's "ifconfig eth0".

ipconfig is for Windows
ifconfig is for Linux

I'm glad you worked out your problem. I have a linksys router also and really like it, though, one day when I actually make time for it, I'd love to try out iptables.

Brian
 
Old 05-19-2004, 11:19 PM   #8
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Heh. On windows and linux/unix I tend to type the other os version of this command first.

I am not surprised my forver typo made it into my post without me seeing it
 
  


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