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ratcreature) wrote2007-03-17 09:41 pm
ratcreature) wrote2007-03-17 09:41 pm
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waaaah. I hate computers so much (sometimes)
Well, the good news is that I have a new desktop computer. (Yay!) The bad news is that it somehow won't cooperate with my router.
Maybe someone on my f-list has suggestions what the problem could be? My router is a Netgear Wireless (WGT624) that my laptop connects to wirelessly and my desktop via an ethernet cable, and the router is set up so that it assigns the connected computers their IPs as a DHCP server automatically. And this used to work more or less out of the box whenever I installed a linux, at least via an ethernet cable (the wireless card driver for my laptop was more finicky). Anyway, the router assigns my laptop it address without problem, and in light of the problems with the desktop I also tried connecting it with a cable, and then it also works fine.
When I installed the newest version of OpenSuSE on my new computer, it went reasonably well in that tt recognized the ethernet controller on the mainboard as a network device, however then the network itself fails to work and my desktop tells me that the "dhcpcd is still waiting for data" or something to that effect (I think that stands for DHCP client demon), and I don't see the desktop in the list of attached device in my routers settings at all when I look at them from my laptop.
Since with the onboard network controller the LED on the router was kind of blinking (which I think it shouldn't, at least it doesn't when the connection works like when I plug the laptop in), I thought that maybe this particular network controller might have problems with the router or whatever, and I put in my old network card into my new computer, the one that previously worked fine with that router before the old desktop died, disabled the onboard one in the BIOS, and set up the network again with using that card. The progress was that now the LED on the router is steady as it should be, but still the computer doesn't connect and I can't see it in the router settings at all in this list of connected devices and their hardware MAC addresses, despite the cable connecting the two and the LED at the router and on the network card being green, and I know that the cable and the port at the router are okay, because I connected my laptop to that router with the same cable and it worked fine.
I'm really out of ideas as to what causes this, or what I could still do, except maybe for trying to install a different Linux distribution or something.
Maybe someone on my f-list has suggestions what the problem could be? My router is a Netgear Wireless (WGT624) that my laptop connects to wirelessly and my desktop via an ethernet cable, and the router is set up so that it assigns the connected computers their IPs as a DHCP server automatically. And this used to work more or less out of the box whenever I installed a linux, at least via an ethernet cable (the wireless card driver for my laptop was more finicky). Anyway, the router assigns my laptop it address without problem, and in light of the problems with the desktop I also tried connecting it with a cable, and then it also works fine.
When I installed the newest version of OpenSuSE on my new computer, it went reasonably well in that tt recognized the ethernet controller on the mainboard as a network device, however then the network itself fails to work and my desktop tells me that the "dhcpcd is still waiting for data" or something to that effect (I think that stands for DHCP client demon), and I don't see the desktop in the list of attached device in my routers settings at all when I look at them from my laptop.
Since with the onboard network controller the LED on the router was kind of blinking (which I think it shouldn't, at least it doesn't when the connection works like when I plug the laptop in), I thought that maybe this particular network controller might have problems with the router or whatever, and I put in my old network card into my new computer, the one that previously worked fine with that router before the old desktop died, disabled the onboard one in the BIOS, and set up the network again with using that card. The progress was that now the LED on the router is steady as it should be, but still the computer doesn't connect and I can't see it in the router settings at all in this list of connected devices and their hardware MAC addresses, despite the cable connecting the two and the LED at the router and on the network card being green, and I know that the cable and the port at the router are okay, because I connected my laptop to that router with the same cable and it worked fine.
I'm really out of ideas as to what causes this, or what I could still do, except maybe for trying to install a different Linux distribution or something.