What can I do now............
Hi all, I am having major problems trying to get satellite NBN access, nothing so far has worked, there's NO information relating to Linux and the NBN at ll particularly for satellite. I have no one who I can even discuss what I can do with. Apparently if one is running Linux in a rural area one is completely "snookered". Last thing I tried is I purchased an Netcomm NF4V route but I cannot login in to configure it. Its status lights indicate ping packets reach the router but it does not respond. It uses an IP address of 192.168,20.1, I suppose this does not work as it appears to be outside the 256 item address range of a standard Debian setup. Although I have been using Linux for a long time I have little experience on networking as I have never really run a network here, hence the problems. And I am certainly ABSOLUTELY NOT going to run windows just to get internet access Any help would be appreciated. May in the end be best just to forget about any kind of decent internet access, no point in banging ones head against the wall forever. I wonder if the local library or community house has internet access. A VERY frustrated Lindsay
On 27/01/17 14:26, Ray via luv-main wrote:
Last thing I tried is I purchased an Netcomm NF4V route but I cannot login in to configure it. Its status lights indicate ping packets reach the router but it does not respond. It uses an IP address of 192.168,20.1, I suppose this does not work as it appears to be outside the 256 item address range of a standard Debian setup. Although I have been using Linux for a long time I have little experience on networking as I have never really run a network here, hence the problems.
Step 1: Configure your computer to be on the same network address range as your router's factory defaults. Old way: sudo ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.20.2 New way: sudo ip addr add 192.168.20.2 dev eth0:0 Hope that helps! Cheers, Andrew
On 27.01.2017 15:09, Andrew Pam wrote:
On 27/01/17 14:26, Ray via luv-main wrote:
Last thing I tried is I purchased an Netcomm NF4V route but I cannot login in to configure it. Its status lights indicate ping packets reach the router but it does not respond. It uses an IP address of 192.168,20.1, I suppose this does not work as it appears to be outside the 256 item address range of a standard Debian setup. Although I have been using Linux for a long time I have little experience on networking as I have never really run a network here, hence the problems.
Step 1: Configure your computer to be on the same network address range as your router's factory defaults.
Old way:
sudo ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.20.2
New way:
sudo ip addr add 192.168.20.2 dev eth0:0
Hope that helps!
Cheers, Andrew
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh................ the obvious approach! I was so frustrated after days of playing with this I could not think straight. It seems though there is few rural people running linux only with satellite NBN and I do not these days really have the patience I had in the past to grind through a configuration problem like this Many thanks, Lindsay
On 27.01.17 14:26, Ray via luv-main wrote:
And I am certainly ABSOLUTELY NOT going to run windows just to get internet access
Couldn't agree more. It's time to move to another planet before that. On 27.01.17 18:10, Ray via luv-main wrote:
I was so frustrated after days of playing with this I could not think straight. It seems though there is few rural people running Linux only with satellite NBN and I do not these days really have the patience I had in the past to grind through a configuration problem like this
Working (too slowly) toward a full-time tree change, I'm encouraged that the problem was manageable. (Though with a Telstra tower 1 km to the south, and an Optus tower about 900m north, I might not need that satellite stuff out there. Once I'm permanently out there will be soon enough to figure out whether the magic NBN brings any bandwidth & cost benefits over older wireless broadband.) And if ifconfig goes away, I'll probably have to learn about the newfangled "ip" alternative too. <sigh> Erik
Ray via luv-main <luv-main@luv.asn.au> writes:
And I am certainly ABSOLUTELY NOT going to run windows just to get internet access
Are you sure that your NBN hardware working? May not be what you want to hear, however I recommend you prove that there isn't anything wrong with Windows first, then try Linux. If it doesn't work with Windows, get that fixed first. If it does work with Windows, then continue playing with Linux. -- Brian May <brian@linuxpenguins.xyz> https://linuxpenguins.xyz/brian/
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