[PLUG] Accessing Wireless Router/AP

Bill Barry bill at billbarry.org
Wed Nov 24 15:34:34 UTC 2010


On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>wrote:

>   The replacement Asus WL 520 GC arrived and I'm trying to configure it but
> cannot access the admin page via firefox. It must be something I've done
> incorrectly and I'm not seeing what that is.
>
>   The Asus is connected to the Ethernet port on my portable, normally eth0
> with the IP address of 192.168.55.2. As root, I ran 'ifconfig eth0:1
> 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0'. When I run 'ifconfig -a' I see that
> port
> eth0:1 is running on the 192.168.1.0 subnet.
>
>   In the address box of firefox I enter 'http://192.168.1.1' and see a
> message that the connection cannot be established. I also cannot ping that
> IP address as a user.
>
>   Cluestick needed, please.
>
>
Did you set a route?
first check it with
route -n
then set it with
route add default gw  192.168.1.1
assuming you have guessed correctly what network your router is expecting.

Bill



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