Showing posts with label LAN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LAN. Show all posts

Saturday, August 11, 2012

Sitecom Gaming Router: Changing Lan IP

My kids have been asking for a gaming router for ages, finally, I caved in, and went out to spend some cash on a gaming router. Sitecom seemed to be a decent choice for the money (€149).
I wanted to install this router in cascade with the main router & modem along with 2 more routers on the network. The default LAN-address for most routers (192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1) were already in use, so I needed to change that. Normally a 30 second job.

Using my laptop running Linux, and Firefox, I changed the router's LAN address (192.168.5.1). To my surprise, it didn't work. Each time after changing and applying the new address, the default (192.168.0.1) would come back. The router did NOT save the settings.
Trouble shooting began: firmware update, trying numerous of changes in other settings before applying the new LAN address, Nothing could help. In the end for the sake of it, I tried the same with Chrome. Even more surprised now, as this was indeed just a 30 second job. It worked ! That was a first ever to notice something to work on chrome that didn't on Firefox.
In short, This router seems to not like Firefox, and needs to be programmed with Chrome. (for windows users, Explorer might work too, but I didn't test further)

Below, the video of my findings:



Monday, April 30, 2012

Ubuntu 11.10 / 12.04 & Realtek network card RTL8111/RTL8168B driver installation

My HP Pavilion dv7-6190ed uses a Realtek Lan adapter (RTL8111/RTL8168B PCI Express Gigabit), known to cause trouble with Ubuntu 11.10 & 12.04  (automatically installs RTL8169 drivers)
The default RTL8169 driver seems to work at first, but keeps loosing connection, and has high packet losses. *Not very useful.

Solution:
Install the correct driver (from the manufacturer)

Friday, October 2, 2009

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS: Acer Aspire 8920(G) LAN/WAN configuration.

Wireless:

The wire-less works out of the box. You only need to configure your security (WEP / WPA)

Wired:

Aspire 8920 uses an Attansic Technology Corp Atheros AR8121 / AR8113 PCI-E card. Unfortunatley that hasn't been included in the current kernels. Therefore you need to do this manually. The following forum has a good description (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=770173) In short here:
  • Install build-essential (synaptic, aptitude or apt-get)
  • download the linux driver from: http://support.asus.com/download/dow...model=P5KPL-CM or : http://www.bas-r.nl/atheros_lan_driver/ (this has the latest, needed for 2.6.24-24-generic)
  • Unpack in your Home directory ex. /home/user//LinuxDrivers/L1e_Lan/l1e-l2e-linux-v1.0.0.4/src
  • in this directory run: sudo KBUILD_NOPEDANTIC=1 make sudo KBUILD_NOPEDANTIC=1 make install
  • This will install driver in /lib/modules/2.6.24-22-generic/kernel/drivers/net/atl1e/at1le.ko
  • in this directory run: sudo insmod ./atl1e.ko