Re: iBook with Airport and Linux network

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Author: Jerry Davis
Date:  
To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: iBook with Airport and Linux network
On Thursday 12 August 2004 09:13 pm, Jay Jacobson wrote:
> 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)?


Ok, I can ping the address from both of my Linux boxen. I thought pinging
broadcast would catch everything on the network. Am I wrong here?

Now on to the real problem. I am trying to print to a CUPS system. But I get
nothing from the iBook. On my CUPS box, I added 192.168.1.105 to the host
address list in CUPS configuration. But no print from the iBook. CUPS does
work though.

>
> ~Jay


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