Hi Callan On Saturday 23 February 2008 22:47:24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The netgear is also a router but not wireless. Anyone got ideas as > > to what I might try? > > Hi James, > > You should break the job into a few smaller jobs. First, turn off the > Netcomm router. Then, get wireless working between Computer & Linksys. >
Well it's a netgear and netcomm ;). I've made that mistake before. > Once that is done, the hard work is over. Then you just need to work out > how you're going to do the Internet connection. > Alas the manual on cd is pretty much worthless (I see I forgot to put a subject line in) > One golden rule that you should note, is that using two routers is a bad > thing. You should think about changing to either : > I made an assumption when I bought the lynksys that it was both modem and router. That assumption turned out to be wrong :( It was going to replace the netgear originally. > (a) Use Linksys as a router, with the Netcomm as just a 'dumb' modem (in > Bridge mode) > > --or-- > > (b) Use Linksys as a wireless access point only (no routing enabled), > and use the Netcomm as a router. > > Ah, b would allow to swap between wired and wireless networking then? I know my way the netgear fairly well so it's more likely. Either way I plan to replace the netgear as it periodically gives me some strange problems. Not to mention being able to access the net thru each connected computer but not the other computers on the network. That only happened recently that I lost the ability to network the pc's via the netgear and nothing seems to be able to get that back > To help you decide (a) or (b), can you tell me why you have two > different devices? Perhaps does your Internet Provider supply one, and > you bought the other one yourself? > I'd go b for now probably if my assumption above was right. Actually a is prob better as the netear will get replaced regardless. Just found more info in my lynksys manual. It's not ordered very well. Each section is done in a nuber of languages one after the other, i.e. installation in english, german, and other languages, then onto the next step in english, german and other languages, etc. And of course no contents to help navigate. It's possible I might make heads of tails of the manual yet but help is still apreciated. So A is what I'll aim for as the netgear will be replaced by a simple dsl modem Both are supplied by me. I've been using the netgear for some 2 years and recently it decided to loose the capacity to network my pcs. Each can still see the net, just not each other anymore > Also does the Linksys offer a "access point only" mode? > > Cheers, > Callan Apparrently only options re wireless are g-mode, b-mode, or mixed, oh and disabled LOL James -- My religion is simple. My religion is love. Dalai Lama -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
