need to connect blu-ray player to wireless internet
hi, i just got an lg blu-ray player (by and by, the manual says that it is running a busybox installation).
i tried plugging in a usb wifi adapter to it but that seems not to work. my plan now is to connect it using cat-5 cable to my laptop running fedora-11 live-usb (my laptop can connect to my wireless router upstairs). how do i configure fedora to share the internet connection to the blu-ray player so that it can use the netflix streaming capability ? thx, |
First things first the ethernet cable has to be a crossover cable , and this should bring you the rest of the way there.
Regards, JKZfixme |
^ tahnks for the link; i cant find gsheild and firestarter seems a little buggy.
is there anything someone can prescribe that works via the command line ? rite now i have my fedora-live-11-usb laptop connected via crossover cable to the blueray player. but it still says the dynamic network connection is not working. (i also tried it setting a static ip). |
i now get network is connected on the blurays settings menu.
but when i try to use youtube, pandora, cinimanow or netflix i get cant connect to internet... |
Connect it to wireless router instead, if it has empty ethernet slots.
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^ that would be ideal except that i would need to move my tv upstairs to my office or my pc downstairs to the living room.
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Move router downstairs.
Or you can think about to buy 5-cat ethernet cable and put it in your house. But before check if it will work like this. Connect it to router and check. |
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maybe i have some wrong iptables rule and it is not forwarding my internet connection well. |
There are many links that explain how to configure internet connection sharing using linux.
Here are some links to get you started. In your case to share your wireless you would use the following rule instead. iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o wlan0 -j MASQUERADE http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/rhel-fe...sharing-howto/ http://lindesk.com/2007/04/internet-...sing-iptables/ Are you using a different subnet for the player then the router's |
^ i was using this as a guide but i guess there are a few typpos:
http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/net...megateway.html i get this error in 9.2.2: Code:
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -i ! eth0 -j ACCEPT Code:
/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth0 -j REJECT i dont think neither worked. Code:
[liveuser@localhost ~]$ ifconfig && iwconfig |
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i finally got it to work but i was just randomly typing commands i found on sites like http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/Lin...rkGateway.html .
now i am afraid that if i restart my laptop i wont be able to retrace my steps. |
here's the final score:
eth0 is my ethernet card connected to my blu-ray player via crossover cable (i also tried with a regular cat-5 cable and it worked just the same). eth1 is my wifi adapter connected to my netgear router upstairs. i ran: Code:
[liveuser@localhost ~]$ cat masq.ksh and then put in the settings for my blu-ray player: ip: 192.168.10.105 netmask: 255.255.255.0 gateway: 192.168.10.101 dns: 192.168.5.1 (my netgear router) done, |
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