ATT wireless a no-go

[Ed Jabbour]

On Sunday 21 October 2007 14:50, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> I must be missing something.  Is this DSL or wifi?  It can't be both.

OK - then it's not dsl - I guess.  This stuff is fiber optic to the "node" - a 
box somewhere in the neighborhood.  From there, it's twisted pair - copper - 
to the telephone box on an outside wall of my house.  From that box, it's 
coax and cat5 to an "RG" - a combo router, modem and whatever else.  From 
the "RG" it's cat5 to the desktop.  An iPhone picks up the wifi seamlessly.  
I just can't get this Debian lap to get an IP from the router because it's 
trying the wrong IP to it, as I laid out below:

>
> On 10/21/07, Ed Jabbour <ejbr at att.net> wrote:
> >
> > Running /etc/init.d/networking restart, I see:
> >         DHCPRELEASE on wlan0 to 192.168.1.1 port 67
> >         send_packet: Network is unreachable
> >
> > 192.168.1.1 was the IP of the old router I had, now disconnected.  The
> > ATT "RG" - the router -  is 192.168.1.254.  I
> > haven't a clue where that wrong IP is coming from: