Actually, I've had an issue like this before wherein none of my Linux boxen would work on the network, but my Powerbook worked fine.
Turns out the issue was that some jackass had mis-configured his router (and plugged the wall network into his LAN ports on it) and it was sending out packets telling all of the client machines that it's mac address was the mac address to use for the gateway IP (or similar, I don't remember the details). Consequently, my Linux box would use that mac address instead of the correct one (or something like that) whereas OS X wasn't fooled. I figured all this out by monitoring the port with ethereal. Take a look at the activity, if you haven't already. -John On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 23:38 -0400, Steve Moskovchenko wrote: > Hello. > We have run into a problem here and are wondering if anyone else > experienced this. > > I have a linux desktop, linux laptop, and a linksys WRT54G router > running the stock linux firmware. All three of these devices behave the > same way when plugged into the wall of the residential building- they > take you to the Link2UM page. I can register these devices, and I am > assigned a 129.x.x.x IP address. At this point, I can ping my UMD > gateway but not anything else! If I boot one of the machines to windows, > everything works fine and the machine gets on the internet. The same > thing happens with my roommate's system. > > If I put a router (not the wrt54g) between the computer and UMD's > network, I can register the router and use the internet (in linux) > without problems. > > Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a fix out there? > Thanks > -- Steve >
