On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Nov 2017, Jim Garrison wrote: > > c) It should come with DHCP enabled and should assign the laptop >> a valid address when you plug in the ethernet cable, if you let it >> > > Jim, > > Changed the laptop's eth0 to use DHCP and it's connected to the router's > WAN port. Rebooted laptop. No ipv4 address on eth0. Should be in a LAN port, plugging your laptop into the WAN port will not do you any good. > > d) If all else fails, connect the network cable then fire up Wireshark. >> Look for arp packets and you'll find the router's IP address and network >> quickly. >> > > Wireshark-2.4.2 is building now. Will read User Guide to learn how to get > the router's address (which should be 192.168.1.1 because that's marked on > the router and it worked the last time I accessed it. I'm surprised it did > not assign an IP address to the laptop. Perhaps I did things out of > sequence. I think your initial assumption that some other setting must be off is erroneous. But I can't offer much more without knowing more about the setup. Possibly the only issue is with plugging in to the WAN port. -wes _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
