Re: iBook with Airport and Linux network

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Jerry Davis wrote:

> I have an iBook with the Airport Extreme 802.11g, which connects to my linksys
> WAP just fine, because I can surf the net etc.
>
> DHCP gave it an address of 192.168.1.105 but when I do a
> ping -b 192.168.1.255 on any of my linux boxen, they don't even see it.
>
> Am I out of luck here?


Why are you trying to ping the broadcast address of your network? What
happens if you try to ping the iBook's IP from your Linux box? How about
pinging the Linux box from your iBook? Can both the Linux box and the
iBook ping the internal IP of the Linksys (I am guessing 192.168.1.1)?

~Jay

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