I've probably missed something really obvious but it's got me bluffed right now.
It worked up till a few weeks ago when I tried to set up thin clients on the wired network, so the wife could have a terminal in the kitchen. After I ran Kiwi-ltsp setup it all turned to custard. Thin client setup doesn't work and now I can't get the 12.3 machine onto the net.
Firstly WiFi works on both machine and mobile broadband router without any issues at all. I'm posting this from an 11.4 instance on the same machine and the two networks coexist happily, 10.1.x.x is the LAN and 192.x.x.x connects to the net, but when I boot 12.3 it refuses to go online.
Ping the router using ip address (http://192.168.10.50) and it connects to the router admin fine.
Do ifconfig and you get:
I did some searching and read a post from Henk van Velden and checked a few things.
The thing that had me scratching my head was:
I've no idea where 169.254.x.x has come from or for that matter how to remove it, that is of course assuming that it is a problem. Networking is not really my strong suit. Any help appreciated.
It worked up till a few weeks ago when I tried to set up thin clients on the wired network, so the wife could have a terminal in the kitchen. After I ran Kiwi-ltsp setup it all turned to custard. Thin client setup doesn't work and now I can't get the 12.3 machine onto the net.
Firstly WiFi works on both machine and mobile broadband router without any issues at all. I'm posting this from an 11.4 instance on the same machine and the two networks coexist happily, 10.1.x.x is the LAN and 192.x.x.x connects to the net, but when I boot 12.3 it refuses to go online.
Ping the router using ip address (http://192.168.10.50) and it connects to the router admin fine.
Do ifconfig and you get:
Code:
LTServer:/etc # ifconfig -abr0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 8E:C3:D7:ED:D7:B9
inet6 addr: fe80::8cc3:d7ff:feed:d7b9/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:23 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:4724 (4.6 Kb)
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr BC:AE:C5:66:2F:F0
inet addr:10.1.1.3 Bcast:10.1.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::beae:c5ff:fe66:2ff0/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:1 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:134 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2677 (2.6 Kb) TX bytes:23938 (23.3 Kb)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:142 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:142 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:12731 (12.4 Kb) TX bytes:12731 (12.4 Kb)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr F4:EC:38:B9:60:9C
inet addr:192.168.10.189 Bcast:192.168.10.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::f6ec:38ff:feb9:609c/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:56 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1087 (1.0 Kb) TX bytes:12211 (11.9 Kb)The thing that had me scratching my head was:
Code:
LTServer:/etc # netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
0.0.0.0 192.168.10.50 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 wlan0
10.1.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
192.168.10.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 wlan0