On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 20:50:01 -0800
wes <[email protected]> dijo:
>You should remove the Netgear from the network. Once you do that, set
>your laptop back to 192.168.0.x and everything should work again.
That is not clear to me. If I remove the Netgear from the network,
nothing will go anywhere. It has a patch cord to the new modem, and
patch cords to a 16-port and an 8-port switch, into which are connected
both computers, the HDHomeRun, and several printers. Looking at the
Admin page with Firefox it lists 'connected devices' as:
192.168.1.25 Brother desktop printer
192.168.1.126 Laptop wireless
192.168.1.136 Laptop eth1
192.168.1.148 HDHomeRun
192.168.1.100 Android phone
I should have added that the new modem came preconfigured with an
address of 192.168.0.1. It also has wireless capability at 2.4GHz and
5GHz with WPA2-AES, but I have never connected to either of them. Only
the laptop and my phone use wireless and they are configured for the
wireless in the Netgear. The laptop is also connected to eth1.
Looking at the list of connected devices above, it is interesting that
I did not have to change the IP address of any of them - somehow the
Netgear must have done that for me, because all were originally '0.'
And all are currently working fine. The only problems are the desktop
and the Synology.
I changed the /etc/network/interfaces file on the desktop because it
just had 'auto lo' and 'iface li inet loopback.' Everything after
those lines were added yesterday from advice on Ubuntu forums:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The primary network interfaces
# From Ubuntu Help, added 2/28/2017
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.146*
gateway 192.168.1.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
*In my message yesterday I said I had set it to . . .1, but that was
mistyped - should have said . . .146.
The Ubuntu instructions said to restart the network with 'sudo service
networking restart,' but that just gave me an error. After fiddling
with the command for a few minutes I gave up on it and just rebooted
the computer. Afterwards the desktop can connect to everything on my
network (except the Synology), but it can't get to the internet.
As for the Synology, as far as I can tell the only way to change its
settings is to use the Synology web based administration tool. You
start by typing 'find.synology' in the URL bar, and the tool is
supposed to find the NAS and let you configure it. Unfortunately, this
fails because the Synology is still '0.'
There is also a problem with the Netgear. I can successfully get into
the admin page with Firefox, but some of the tools don't work,
specifically anything that will tell me what its settings are. This is
kind of maddening. According to the manual I need to select the
Advanced tab, then Setup > Lan Setup, which will give me a page with
what it is set to. But when I do that the page remains blank.
I have to leave now for PSU and I won't be back until after 6:00, so
all this will have to wait. In the meantime, if anyone has any genius
suggestions, I'm all ears ... er, eyes.
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