On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 08:51:56PM +0000, spirals wrote:
> Hi, I have recently received a Netopia 2247NWG as part of a Eircom
> Broadband deal. Although I do not yet have broadband operational . I
> have solved the Netopia 2247NWG. WiFi Security issue fairly simply. As
> I am running Debian 2.6.17 on my machines, the installation disk for
> windows was not much use to me. With the 2246 directly connected to the
> NIC port on my machine, I was able to determine it's IP address. Not
> *192.168.1.254* as stated in the "Software User Guide V76-Clsc.pdf" I
> downloaded from the Motorola/Netopia web site, but *192.25.206.10*. By
> the simple expedient of re jigging eth0 on my machine to be the same
> network (at 192.25.206.9) together with placing an entry in my host
> file for netopia at 192.25.206.10. I was able to establish
> communications via Firefox as http://netopia. At that point I was
> asked for a name and password. The correct values are
> */eircom at eircom.net/* and /*broadband1*/. Once in and entering "expert
> mode" I was able to change the key settings for WiFi and then disable
> it, as well as make other changes including the IP address of the 2247
> to a IP within the unroutable range I use on my LAN. I hope this of
> some help for anyone attempting to connect Linux via Eircom Broadband.
> (dja.)
>>Even on linux, you should have been able to acheive all of that by pointing a
web browser at 192.168.1.254...
If you're netopia has a different IP(by default), I would suggest that you've probably been
sent out the wrong one, possibly a hotspot router or the like. Also, eircom
router's shouldn't require a password to log into the routers, merely for the
PPPoE connection.
> --
> Irish Linux Users' Group mailing list
> About this list : http://mail.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug> Who we are : http://www.linux.ie/> Where we are : http://www.linux.ie/map/>
Maintained by the ILUG website team. The aim of Linux.ie is to
support and help commercial and private users of Linux in Ireland. You can
display ILUG news in your own webpages, read backend
information to find out how. Networking services kindly provided by HEAnet, server kindly donated by
Dell. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds,
used with permission. No penguins were harmed in the production or maintenance
of this highly praised website. Looking for the
Indian Linux Users' Group? Try here. If you've read all this and aren't a lawyer: you should be!
