Bill Barry wrote: > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>wrote: > >> The replacement Asus WL 520 GC arrived and I'm trying to configure it but >> cannot access the admin page via firefox. It must be something I've done >> incorrectly and I'm not seeing what that is. >> >> The Asus is connected to the Ethernet port on my portable, normally eth0 >> with the IP address of 192.168.55.2. As root, I ran 'ifconfig eth0:1 >> 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0'. When I run 'ifconfig -a' I see that >> port >> eth0:1 is running on the 192.168.1.0 subnet. >> >> In the address box of firefox I enter 'http://192.168.1.1' and see a >> message that the connection cannot be established. I also cannot ping that >> IP address as a user. >> >> Cluestick needed, please. >> >> > Did you set a route? > first check it with > route -n > then set it with > route add default gw 192.168.1.1 > assuming you have guessed correctly what network your router is expecting.
My preference is to use arp to assign (?) an IP address on the local network to the MAC address of the "device". Then I just connect to that IP address -- browser, ssh, or whatever is needed. \\||/ Rod -- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
