On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 10:19:48 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
> After many months I'm finally setting up the Belkin Advance N900 > wireless router. It's connected via a cat5 cable directly to my > laptop. The default IP address for the Belkin is 192.168.2.1. When I > enter that address (without the http protocol preceeding it, per the > Belkin users manual) firefox responds by telling me that it cannot > establish a connection to that server. > > Opera also reports it cannot connect to a server at that IP > address. > > Is there anything obvious I've missed? If not, I will wait for > next week's clinic and bring Belkin N900, laptop, cable, and myself > there for help. Try specifying the http:// protocol anyway. You're going to be connecting to an html page, so it can't hurt. I think Belkin is expecting the browser to prepend the protocol specifier automatically. In these suspicious days, they may not do that anymore. --Dale -- "A little paranoia is a good thing." --me _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
