On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 10:19:48AM -0700, Rich Shepard 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.
By "connected to your laptop", I assume you are plugged into a LAN port, and the activity lights blink properly. Can you ping 192.168.2.1? What happens if you turn off iptables for your laptop? How does your laptop get its IP address? What does ifconfig say? What does route -N say? Have you tried booting your laptop from a Live CD, and seen if you can connect that way? Chances are, this is a laptop configuration opportunity rather than a Belkin problem. Networking setup can be complicated, but then, connecting to a billion other machines on the planet via IP is intrinsically non-simple. Linux, with all the extra security bells and whistles, can be configured to be even more complicated. These days, out of the box, Linux Just Works, but over the years I imagine you have made some tweaks. Years ago, I learned how to do networking from Peter Harrison's "Linux Home Networking" website, which later became the book "The Linux Quick Fix Notebook". That has some excellent explanations, though it might be dated and incomplete 8 years after publication. Full disclosure: I was the one who gave a copy of Peter's manuscript to the Prentiss-Hall rep at OSCON many years ago, so I am biased in its favor. Peter and I still talk sometimes; he has the most mellifluous Jamaican accent. Rule 1 of the open source community: if someone does something great, thank them, and help them if you can. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
