Layout:

computer ---- Belkin F5D7230 ----- Zyxel P-660R-T1 ----- ISP via telephone line
..................Wireless Access Point

samac

The Belkin has a version number A000de and it is not possible to install dd-wrt. Is what you are suggesting still possible?

samac

Get a Buffalo Networks router.

Really? There's no admin interface (normally web based) that allows you to set a couple of static IP addresses?

Usually you don't need to do something like that. At least on my network I never did, I just used netconfig (or editing /etc/conf.d/net on Gentoo) and it worked without a problem. But that is possibly dependent on the router.

Hmm. http://cache-www.belkin.com/support/...xxx_manual.pdf and scroll to page 45.

Setup your IP pool to not include the address that you want to give your computer that you're talking about in this thread (otherwise it might be given to another machine that logs into your network).

Normally you do have to tell the router to not hand out your static IP to someone else. :)

You are right, but in a single user network (as described by the OP) that won't happen.

@Richard Cranium
Thanks for the link much better than the pamphlet that came with the router. I do have access to the router, but I haven't been able to set things up yet, perhaps the manual will help (I hear cries of RTFM resound widely across the internet).

@TobiSGD & Richard Cranium
Could it have something to do with the Belkin Wireless router being set up as a wireless access point that is causing the problem with it not connecting through to the internet when I set a static IP in rc.inet1.conf

samac

Easy. A Wireless Access Point behaves as if it were a NIC so only requires DHCP setup to talk to your ISPs modem and static addy to talk with your wired NIC.

Back in the day when wireless drivers were rare (and troublesome) on Linux and nearly non-existent on OS/2 and BeOS I circumvented the problem by using a wired NIC supported sweetly in each, and connected wirelessly through a cheap little portable WAP. Worked great for years until I just decided wired was better in too many ways.

It shouldn't matter if you connect through WLAN or Ethernet.

Marking this as solved.

I had to change the usage of the Belkin from a wireless access point back to a router, then I had reset it and set it back up. Then after running netconfig and restarting the network. I have internet and also a machine that boots in about 19-20 seconds after the lilo prompt.

samac