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Any networking gurus in the house?

I bought a Linksys WAP11 and when I plugged it into the lan at work, it worked great right out of the box. My notebook running OS X 10.2 found it and connected no problem, I could surf from anywhere on the 10th floor.

But when I brought it home and tried to hook it up to my DSL modem, nothing....... I reset the Gateway Router to match the setting I use to connect w/my computer. I have tried setting the Linksys to obtain IP dynamicly...no good. I have manually set the IP to match the IP last served to my computer...still nothing.

How the H*ll do I make this wireless device talk to my DSL modem?

Google has not helped either....

Did you try adding your modem to your IP route table?

Can't help at all, but since I am in the (beginning of the) process of setting up a wireless addition ot my network, I thought I'd ask -

what the hell is an IP route table, and where would one find such a thing?

An IP route table is part of the router. You basically add in the names of the devices that will be connecting to the network through the router to this list, and assign them an IP address. You must add them to this list on certain types of routers (read: lower market end ones that you don't pay $1000+ for, generally) for the function 'get automatically assigned IP' to work, unless you are using another computer as a server, and the one that needs the IP as a slave. Let me go back over my telnet stuff and I'll find the generic commands to bring up the IP route table.

[edit]Sorry about naming the IP route table on that...got mixed up with my networking class yesterday. It's the DNS hostname table we're looking at here...I think.

First step is to find out what the configuration IP of your router is. It'll be somewhere in the manual. Once you have that, go to the DOS commandline (RUN>>cmd) and type in 'telnet ipaddress_of_your_router'. You may need to do the 'help' command a few times to find it, but on my router you have to go to dns, then add. It'll ask you for a hostname (this will be the name your devices uses to identify itself on the network) and an IP (this is the IP you want to assign it). And that's basically it. Type save, hit enter and your router will save the settings. type exit until you're back at the command prompt and it should be done. Shit everything off and start it all back up again, and you should now have an IP address being assigned to your device. Ping that IP to make sure.[/edit]

[This message has been edited by Skaarjj (edited 02-12-2004).]

Well, I found out the major problem.....The Linksys WAP11 is a wireless access point only. It is designed to be installed on a network that already has a router.

So, I exchanged it for a router/wap and will try again.