[PLUG] <SOLVED> Re: Reconfigure Gingerbread or Reconfigure Wireless Router

John Jason Jordan johnxj at comcast.net
Thu Oct 20 16:24:37 UTC 2011


On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 01:19:42 -0700
Bill Barry <bill at billbarry.org> dijo:

>On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 12:12 AM, John Jason Jordan
><johnxj at comcast.net>wrote:

>> I could use some clues.

>If this thing you are calling an ethernet switch is actually a router
>or is connected to a router, then you have two routers and two
>networks. The ethernet switch network and the WRT54G network. The
>ethernet switch is giving out IP addresses on one network, the WRT54G
>is giving out addresses on another network.  If  that is the case then
>192.168.0.103 is the address given to the WRT54G by the ethernet
>switch.  Something that connects to the WRT54G directly by wireless
>gets an IP address on its subnet. Let's guess 192.168.1.?, not
>192.168.0.?   The WRT54G is by default configured to allow access to
>its configuration only if you  are in its subnet.  So, to configure
>the WRT54G connect to the WRT54G via the laptop with wireless. The
>laptop will get an address from the WRT54G. Check to see what that IP
>address is. Then from the laptop point the browser to
>http://192.168.?.0where ? is on the WRT54G network.

You guessed correctly, and I'm sorry I didn't make it clearer that
there were two networks.

This morning, after coffee, it dawned on me that I should check what
password I actually set up on the WRT54G. Looking at the settings in
the laptop Gnome GUI it turns out that I used a different password than
I originally thought, and it is nine characters. The phone was happy to
connect to it once I entered the correct password.

It's still lame that Gingerbread can't connect to a network that
requires fewer than eight characters, and someone must die for that.

It's also still perplexing why I cannot connect to the WRT54G. Once you
pointed out that the 192.168.0.103 was being handed out by the wired
router I realized that you were absolutely correct. My excuse for not
realizing that previously is that it was late at night when I was trying
this. However, this morning I attempted to get into the WRT54G, but have
still failed. 

On the laptop I turned off ethernet and turned on wireless. From the
command line ifconfig showed wlan0, but it said its address was
10.42.43.1. That can't possibly be right, although I did open a browser
page to confirm. 

I should add that the wired router is a D-Link, whose default address
is 192.168.0.1. As I recall I just left it at that, so the whole wired
network is on 0, not 1.

But with the laptop using only the wireless I still cannot get into
the WRT54G. The factory default for Linksys routers is 192.168.1.1, but
that doesn't work either. (Note to self: Next time you set up a router
put a sticker on it and write down the address you gave it.) The laptop
insists the address of the WRT54G is 10.42.43.1. However, the phone says
it is 192.168.0.104. Neither will open the configuration page from
Firefox on the laptop. Firefox on the phone won't go there either. 

Although the immediate problem is solved, I still ought to figure out
how to get into the configuration page for the WRT54G, just for future
needs.



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