I am trying to use my Ralink 2561 chip set on Fedora 12. I have tried using dhcp and the address I get is 10.43.42.0 which is good address but could not have gotten the address from my router because it delivers ip address of 192.168.0.100 to 192.168.0.199. I have tried to use static address but still 10.43.42.0. Now is that a default address, that is not use able to me. My router will not except 10.43.42.0 addresses. Fedora 11 works as it should. I get a 192.168.0.* addresses. I wish I had tested this sooner. I didn't do that. I will test sooner on 13.
Does anyone else have same or similar problem.
Thank You Jim Bennett
On 12/07/2009 04:51 PM, James W. Bennett wrote:
I am trying to use my Ralink 2561 chip set on Fedora 12. I have tried using dhcp and the address I get is 10.43.42.0 which is good address
No it's not...it's a network address (e.g. broadcast), not a host address.
but could not have gotten the address from my router because it delivers ip address of 192.168.0.100 to 192.168.0.199. I have tried to use static address but still 10.43.42.0. Now is that a default address, that is not use able to me. My router will not except 10.43.42.0 addresses. Fedora 11 works as it should. I get a 192.168.0.* addresses. I wish I had tested this sooner. I didn't do that. I will test sooner on 13.
Use the wireless tools and verify that the wireless is associated with YOUR access point, e.g. "iwconfig wlan0" and verify that there is an ESSID shown and a valid MAC address following "Access Point:". It may be you're connected to someone else's access point, and hence their network. However, any IP address ending in ".0" is going to be a broadcast address and is invalid as a host address. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer ricks@nerd.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Do you know where _your_ towel is? - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:27 AM, Rick Stevens ricks@nerd.com wrote:
On 12/07/2009 04:51 PM, James W. Bennett wrote:
I am trying to use my Ralink 2561 chip set on Fedora 12. I have tried using dhcp and the address I get is 10.43.42.0 which is good address
No it's not...it's a network address (e.g. broadcast), not a host address.
Actually that's not entirely true in 10.x.y.x a .0 address is a perfectly valid IP address depending on the netmask. If it was a /24 netmask it would be invalid but it would be a network address, not a braodcast address. The broadcast address for /24 is .255 , which is is also a valid IP address if the netmask is less than 24.
Peter
On 12/08/2009 04:24 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:27 AM, Rick Stevensricks@nerd.com wrote:
On 12/07/2009 04:51 PM, James W. Bennett wrote:
I am trying to use my Ralink 2561 chip set on Fedora 12. I have tried using dhcp and the address I get is 10.43.42.0 which is good address
No it's not...it's a network address (e.g. broadcast), not a host address.
Actually that's not entirely true in 10.x.y.x a .0 address is a perfectly valid IP address depending on the netmask. If it was a /24 netmask it would be invalid but it would be a network address, not a braodcast address. The broadcast address for /24 is .255 , which is is also a valid IP address if the netmask is less than 24.
Well, yeah, I mistyped. It's not a broadcast address, but it is the root network address for anything smaller than a /22 (e.g. /23, /24, /25 and so on). It would be a valid host address only on /22s and larger. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer ricks@nerd.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - "People tell me I look at the dark side. That's not true. I have - - the heart of a small boy......in a jar right here on my desk." - - -- Stephen King - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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