On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 3:51 PM, John Jason Jordan <joh...@comcast.net> wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestion. I'm making progress now. > > The wire from the D-Link to the Linksys was connected to the WAN port > on the Linksys, at least I think it is the WAN port. There are five > ports, one of which is separated a bit from the others. It was on the > separated port. > > I moved it to one of the other four ports, and restarted the Linksys, > and now I can connect my laptop to it, and ifconfig now lists it as > wlan0, but I still can't get into the Admin page with Firefox. > > When I restarted the Linksys the D-Link gave it .165, where it had > been .179 previously. And when I connected to it with my laptop its > name is now 'linksys' where before I had named it 'JJJ.' And there is > no security. > > I could fix the security and the name issue if I could just get into > its Admin page. >
So the Linksys itself has the .179 address or does your laptop. If the Linksys has the .179 address then are you able to access it via that address? > And I'm still puzzled why I have an eth0 and an eth1, where eth1 has > all the traffic and eth0 seems to have none. I think one is the wired connection and the other is the wireless. Either way, this is not what is causing you trouble. Bill _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
