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Skriven 2006-03-09 13:41:06 av James Bradley (1:134/77.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Maurice Kinal
Ärende: W'XP-Usb+802.11g+wood
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Maurice Kinal wrote James Bradley on 03-07-06 02:20

 JB> What I am trying to figure, is communication to the 11g router. I'm
 JB> locally, and the right LEDs light when I attach the NIC to the
 JB> still get "network unavailable" when I try to http to its setup page.

 MK> What manufacturer/model is it?  Also it might be possible
 MK> to upgrade the firmware on there if it turns out to be a
 MK> dud.

It's a Gigafast f/a Future Shop rebate program. I'm sure I'm the dud, but the
HW is under warranty JIC. The address they told me to visit for settings was
posted in their printed and pdf manual. I saw nothing about dictating the
address of the browser, but I did just return with some D-Link docs that tells
me I need to do just that for it. I'll take a closer scour, in case I missed
something. BTW, the community connection to the Internet is now W'XP, and the
tech walked in for his forgotten phone just as I was trying to work the USB
drive. He loosened it up enough, so I don't have to do the floppy shuffle! Just
when I think the Provence sucks...

 MK> Where do you get the address from?  Are you using dhcpcd
 MK> to link to the router?  It might be configured to only
 MK> allow a certain address to use the setup page.  Personally
 MK> I don't bother as we have a different machine that looks
 MK> after everything and suckered the wireless router into
 MK> thinking it is in charge when it isn't.  This way someone
 MK> who can get access into the router cannot gain access into
 MK> anything else, especially not the broadband.  That is a
 MK> wasted interface methinks (the WAN port).  It ain't gonna
 MK> happen.  Seems to me that an access point would have been
 MK> a better idea but we weren't sure what we wanted out of
 MK> wireless back then. Fortunetly we were able to figure out
 MK> how to bypass even having to use the supplied setup page
 MK> so it really doesn't matter anymore.

Checking my assumptions, you connect nothing to the WAN port, which is the only
one to access that setup page, no? You don't run factory defaults?

 JB> to format the new partitions. <G+D>

 MK> Yeah.  I hear you there.  I've done simular like
 MK> forgetting to plug things in and then wondering why it
 MK> won't power up.

Or soldering a plug, to look at its casing sitting on the bench. No, I have no
idea what that's like. <L>

 JB> LOL! I'll be right over with a U-Haul. I'll fill the other half with
 JB> the wooden blinds.
 MK> Sounds great!  We'll see you when you get here.

I might have to sell the house, to pay for the gas.

 JB> Volutes... You know, it's like a pilaster, but different. <Wry-G>

 MK> Okay.  I think I get you now.  I am not sure I need
 MK> anything like that but the blinds do interest me.  Right
 MK> now I have the ones that got banned, or they were thinking
 MK> of banning, since they are toxic if you lick them.  I
 MK> haven't bothered to test mine.  Do you think I should?

Stop licking them, and don't grind them up for smoothies. Take two Aspirin, and
call me in the morning. 

 JB> ornamentation. ...OK, if you look at a four poster bed, the four
 JB> capitals, if you will - are volutes.

 MK> That would work on my current bed.  Nothing like that on
 MK> there at the moment.

Got a *sweet* headboard just last week. Again, it's the shipping that would
kill us. I can get the best bargain in the world, but if it cost as much to 
ship it as purchasing new... Toss me an e-mail. Maybe we can hijack a ride for
some stuff.

 JB> Trouble is, I've had to get creative to fit it in here.

 MK> Really?  I haven't noticed that but it does happen every
 MK> so often, perhaps even more then all of the other echoes
 MK> combined.  I didn't know it was a 'must' though.

Huh... Wha? We could take the topic to home'n garden... (Or whatever it's
called.)

 JB>> ...And the world rotates in the direction it should.
 MK>> We have a choice?
 JB> Ya... Go to the other side of the equator, and look North.

 MK> That is simply perspective and has nothing to do with
 MK> changing the spin whatsoever.  I was thinking something
 MK> more dramatic then that.

Well, if a change is a good as a wink to a blind man...

 JB> contracted from cooperate.

 MK> Yeah.  I remember that well.  Not much of that happening
 MK> these daze but you have my attention if you think you
 MK> could make it real wrt hardware.

Sounds to me like you have a pretty good start. One fella is soldering caps on
you MB, I'd be building your headboard if'n I was there, and didn't another
neighbour work on this 'mencoder' project with you? Sounds like you you don't
need to take minutes at meetings.



... James
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