[Gllug] wicd manager

[damion.yates at gmail.com]

On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Frank Scott wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 01:59:23PM -0400, Lucy Peters wrote:
> > 
> > I have logged in and disabled the DHCP server but still not able to
> > go online with the wireless router.
> > 
> > ping -n 192.168.0.1
> > 
> > PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
> > 
> > 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=127 time=1.48 ms

It seems that you still have an ip despite turning dhcp off, but sadly not
the one gained via dhcp from the cable router.  What is your ip, dns
server and default gateway when plugged in wired? (the
ifconfig/netstat/cat commands).  It should be possible in wicd to
hardwire those and then the use of wifi via the wifi router is just to
bridge to the cable router network.  This possibly needs further
settings on the wifi router to basically turn everything off except
being a wifi device, it definitely doesn't need to make use of its WAN
interface for example.

Something else to consider is that technically the wifi router could
work duplicating the actions of the cable router with dhcp, nat, dns,
etc.  But as we see from the traceroute -n 80.87.128.36 nothing is
passing by the router.  I wonder if the cable to it is okay, can you use
that one for your wired test with the laptop direct to the cable router?
Also have you given any IP/dhcp details to the wifi router for its use
of the cable router's connection?
 
> I have no experience of using cable modems or the DI-624, but it would
> seem to me that if you're using the router 192.168.0.1 as your
> nameserver, then you must either set the DI-624 to use a Virgin
> supplied dynamic address or supplied static one.

If using the wifi router functionality at all the traceroute would
need to be working.
 
Damion
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