Quote Originally Posted by Mattr35


First I went to lunch at a BBQ place I was meaning to try (never try to solve computer stuff on empty stomach, right?).

Then I went off to my local Best Buy. Ended up buying a Linksys WRT54G for $39. Don't need wireless atm but in the future I will.

Got it up and running on the windows box no problem. So then I hooked up a cable from my linux box to the router and turned it on. Once up I opened a root terminal and ifconfig and saw my old settings from setting it up manually. So I ran netcardconfig and it worked!

So now I'm typing this on my linux box.

That is so weird that I could not connect straight through, but had to go through a router. Oh well, mission accomplished.

Matt
How was the BBQ?

Gald to hear that the router did indeed resolve your problem. I posted back in 2003 "Overall I think half of all network problems posted here would go away or at least be resolved much faster if the posters were using routers" and that's still an opnion I hold strongly.

I expect you'll be pretty happy with the WRT54G. It's not the cheapest router out there, but there are a wealth of great enhancements that have been produced by the Open Source community for it (yes, it runs Linux), something (the enhancements) I don't know of for any other commercial home router. The growing number of features and enhancements would be, at least to me, a valuable feature. You got yours at the best price I've seen for that particular router.

If you do learn what the issue with connecting directly to your ISP is, please post back. Since you have multiple systems, if you have a hub you might even be able to "sniff the wire" with a packet sniffer like ethereal and watch the DHCP handshake take place (yup, it is in Knoppix, at least was the last time I looked).

Good luck with your deployment.