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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=476443316-23122003>You
can't have both with the same IP address. Change the IP address of one of
them to .224. Make sure the netmask is the same on both of them as well,
though it looks like you're using the automatic stuff with the multicast
DNS. I'd avoid all of that and just give it a static IP address in the
standard RFC1918 address space, such as:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=476443316-23122003>laptop: 192.168.1.5 netmask
255.255.255.0</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=476443316-23122003>desktop: 192.168.1.6 netmask
255.255.255.0</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=476443316-23122003>Post
the results of iwconfig and ifconfig from both machines. We need to check
to make sure that you're using the same channel on both machines.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=476443316-23122003>Post
the results of 'cat /proc/cmdline' on both machines. We need to see what
you're passing to the kernel in case it's an apic or acpi
issue.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=476443316-23122003>I
suppose I've been lucky in that the hardware I have is good and when I plug
stuff in, it just works. So far, people with stock RH and Suse kernels
seem to be having problems. Am I being too general?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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size=2><SPAN class=476443316-23122003>Blue
skies...
Todd</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Philip Burness
[mailto:pburness@btopenworld.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, December 23, 2003
12:36 AM<BR><B>To:</B> support@linuxant.com;
driverloader@lists.linuxant.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [driverloader] Belkin 54g
Wireless devices<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sorry for the request for help but I am
interested in purchasing licences for your product. I have downloaded trial
licenses and cannot get the equipment to work under SuSE 9.0. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Obviously before I purchase the licenses I would
like to ensure the system functions.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have a desktop and a laptop. The desktop has a
PCI wireless network card, the laptop has a cardbus wireless network card
(both are belkin and use the broadcom chipset) both are running SuSE
9.0</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The laptop is configured as ESSID = Home, NICK =
laptop, mode = Ad-hoc address = 169.254.94.225</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The desktop is configured as ESSID = Home, nick =
desk, mode = Ad-hoc address = 169.254.94.225</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>ifconfig from both machines show the wlan0
interface up</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>iwconfig from both machines show the ESSID, NICK,
MODE as listed above, but both machines show 0 signal strength</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The machines are next to each other</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Pinging the desktop from the laptop shows the
coms LED flashing but gives network unreachable</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Pinging the laptop from the desktop gives the
same message but I cannot see the LED's</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have removed the firewall from both
machines</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the kernel in the desktop is 2.4-119</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the kernel in the laptop is 2.4-99</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Can you help?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Phil</FONT></DIV>
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