On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Roshan George <[email protected]> wrote:
Assuming that your twisted pair DSL line is now connected to the new "wired" modem, I would suggest that you connect wired modem to one of the LAN ports on your existing AP's LAN ports. So now your AP, the wired DSL modem and all other computers are on the same IP network. The default gateway would be the wired DSL modem's IP number (as Raja has suggested). > > The settings on both Windows and Ubuntu are identical. I also use > Google's 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 always on my computers (though that's a > good tip) but unfortunately, the Ubuntu computer was unable to ping > 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4 or 4.2.2.[1-7]. Weirdly, NetworkManager would not let > me configure the DNS settings either. The 'Apply' button was greyed out. Configuring network through the NetworkManager has always been a hit & miss for me. > However, in a surprising development, after I put my laptop under > suspend and then brought it back up later it connected and now works > pretty much flawlessly except for signal being oddly low and the > wireless network running at 1 Mb/s. I believe this is just erroneously > being reported, though, since I can download at 230 kB/s from the > Internet. As an alternate, you can remove the Network Manager and configure the network parameters in /etc/network/interfaces. -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
