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Re: [LUG] Debian and home hubs.

 

JOHN DAVEY wrote:
>
>> Be useful if you could do some basic checks before and
>> after it connects, to see if it is getting an IP address
>> ("ip addr list" or
>> "/sbin/ifconfig" at a shell), setting DNS servers ("cat
>> /etc/resolv.conf"), or changing routing ("netstat -nr").
> OK, I did that and got;
> ubuntu:/home/jondavey# /sbin/ifconfig
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:a0:d1:6b:b0:80  
>           inet addr:192.168.1.65  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           inet6 addr: fe80::2a0:d1ff:fe6b:b080/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:18746 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:17439 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
>           RX bytes:18768103 (17.8 MiB)  TX bytes:2681902 (2.5 MiB)

This suggests the laptop is called "ubuntu" but it is running Lenny no?
Curious naming convention.

eth0 has an IP address consistent with default on Home Hub - does this
mean it is/was plugged into the network with a cable?

> wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:16:e3:d0:d9:34  
>           UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
> 
> wmaster0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 
> 00-16-E3-D0-D9-34-65-74-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

> ubuntu:/home/jondavey# netstat -nr
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
> 192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0 eth0
> 0.0.0.0         192.168.1.254   0.0.0.0         UG        0 0          0 eth0

This looked right except it is "eth0" the wired not the wireless that is
connected to the Home hub.

Are you connecting wirelessly, and with a wire at the same time, as that
will confuse the logic of networking....

> This is how it looks after I installed the firmware;
> ubuntu:/home/jondavey# ip addr list
> 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN 
>     link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
>     inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
>     inet6 ::1/128 scope host 
>        valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
> 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 
> 1000
>     link/ether 00:a0:d1:6b:b0:80 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>     inet 192.168.1.65/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth0
>     inet6 fe80::2a0:d1ff:fe6b:b080/64 scope link 
>        valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
> 3: wmaster0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc ieee80211 state 
> UNKNOWN qlen 1000
>     link/ieee802.11 00:16:e3:d0:d9:34 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> 4: wlan0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN 
> qlen 1000
>     link/ether 00:16:e3:d0:d9:34 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> ubuntu:/home/jondavey# 


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