ATT wireless a no-go

[Steve Jardine]

I have a similar system through QWest. Mine has cable, telephone, and VDSL. I use a NAT switch to connect to it. It gets a DHCP IP number that is updated periodically. 

Try hooking up the laptop using an Ethernet cable. I have found WIFI in Linux to be no fun with certain kinds of WIFI cards. BTW, the latest versions of Linux seem to address the WIFI issue better.

Steve

On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 15:50:23 -0400
Ed Jabbour <ejbr at att.net> wrote:

> 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:
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