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Peter L : 20/01/04 09:41 PM : Incident created |
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- I am trying to use Linux 9.2 as a gateway to Internet with two XP-systems connected through a WLAN. It works with Win98 as a gateway, so I know that all harware is OK. It seems to me that I cannot get in contact with the network using Linux. There are no errormessages and the configuration tool says the LAN is up. The modem connection to Internet works jusr fine. The LAN card is a D-LINK DFE-530TX connected to a D-Link accesspoint DWL-900AP .
No errormessages are shown at BOOT and when I finish Linux. Any idea what's the problem and how to solve it.
Thanks,
Peter
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alans : 21/01/04 12:08 AM : Reply received |
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- in 'mcc' (mandrake control center), 'network & internet', 'drakconnect' run
the connection wizard. if the chipset in the dlink dfe-530tx is supported
(dlink is well known for releasing hardware that is identfied as a certain
model, but different manufacturing runs of the model actually contain
different chipsets, which require different driver software) then the wizard
will configure it.
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Alan -- MandrakeSoft Support Team :)
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Peter L : 24/01/04 10:01 PM : More info provided |
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- I did this. Now I have ping'ed on the Linux system (which connects to the WLAN through a access point) and on one of the XP's. See the attached files.
Maybe there is a problem with the IP-addresses for the card in the Linux system (its has 192.168.0.1 static) anf for the DHCP- & DNS servers?
/Peter
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alans : 26/01/04 07:46 PM : Reply received |
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- when running the wizard you need to know if you are using a static ip address
or if you are using dhcp. if it is dhcp then you don't need to know any
additional info, but if it is static then you need to know the ip of the
computer, the ip of the gateway (which is the dhcp server as well), and the
ip(s) of the dns servers.
--
Alan -- MandrakeSoft Support Team :)
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Peter L : 01/02/04 05:24 PM : More info provided |
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- Now it works. I reinstalled Linux configured the network and internet connection, but no succes. Then I used Mandrake Update and updated DCHP and shorewall, reconfigured the network and internet connection and no it's up and running.
I have just one question regarding this. Is there a command line utility to connect/disconnect to/from Internet? It would be easier than to start KDE and use drakeconnect. (I have a rather small system for the gateway and it takes many minutes to start KDE.
Thanks and regards,
Peter
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alans : 02/02/04 06:10 PM : Reply received |
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- as root:
ifup ethX
connects and:
ifdown ethX
disconnects, where the 'X' is the number of the nic (like eth0 or eth1).
--
Alan -- MandrakeSoft Support Team :)
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Peter L : 03/02/04 05:57 PM : More info provided |
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- Thanks for the hint! But I had to change ethX to ppp0!
/Peter
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Peter L : 03/02/04 05:58 PM : Incident closed |
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