Thanks Derek and others. I got it sorted by installing Linux in my Windows PC.
It worked at the first instance. Derek's inputs were quite useful. The problem could be with the Ethernet card I guess or some wrong configuration already in my Linux. Cheers Amala Singh. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Derek Jennings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 12:47 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] ADSL router modem set up/445A Speedlink web station/Supanet/PPPoA On Thursday 02 December 2004 11:11, amalasingh wrote: > I set it as LAN connection. It was asking > me to configure IP and subnet mask. > > I entered 10.0.0.2 and subnet mask > 255.255.255.0 > > > http://10.0.0.2 works. But unfortunately the > browser brings my local host instead of the > admin webpage from the router. I dont > know why. > > By setting an Automatic configuration, > it says �Connection refused for 10.0.0.2." > But it does not give the same error message > for some dummy IP addresses. > > > I also went to console and entered > /sbin/dhclient > > one of the error messages was sit0 not > configured. > > Thanks > Amala Singh > 10.0.0.2 is the address of the router. You must not use the same address yourself. That is why your browser is connecting to localhost. If you set an address manually then use a different address such as 10.0.0.20 (It must not be the same as any other computer on your network) If you set a manual IP address, then you must also set the gateway address. The gateway address is the address of the device with access to the internet. That is your router, so your gateway is 10.0.0.2 Finally you must declare the address of your DNS server which maps web names to IP addresses. That is defined in MandrakeControlCentre>Network>Internet access. Your router may be acting as a DNS proxy so you could try putting 10.0.0.2 in there, or else go to your ISPs support pages and find the address of their DNS server. But it should work when you use DHCP. I asked you yesterday if you got an IP address when you used DHCP? Do you get an IP address? If you do then what happens if you open a terminal and type ping 68.142.226.32 Do you get a response? (Ctl+C) to stop it) and what happens if you do ping www.yahoo.com ? derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com ____________________________________________________
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