[SOLVED] Setting static IP...

[Neo]

Hi All,
I just bought a Linksys WRT300N v1.1 router off of Kijiji and am in the process of installing DD-WRT on it.

There are a few steps that I need to do in PCLinuxOS which I don't know how to do and could not find it by searching the forums.

The steps are:

A)  Set your computer to a static IP address of 192.168.1.7 Subnet mask to 255.255.255.0

B)  Set your computer to auto IP and auto DNS.

I've looked around in the Network manager but am really not sure about making changes here and would greatly appreciate hearing from someone who actually knows their way around these settings.
Well A seems easier to me than B.


As I said above I would greatly appreciate any help you may give or point me to a thread that I have missed which explains all of this.

[muungwana]

"auto IP" in your number two can be understood as "dhcp" and this in contradiction to the "static IP" in your number one. Can you explain a little bit more what you mean by "auto IP"?

you can set static ip address in pcc, start pcc -> network and internet -> set up a new network interface and then go through the process at one stage, you will be asked if you want to select "automatic IP" or "manual configuration", choose the later and you will have the opportunity to add a static IP address and other info

[Neo]

Thanks Muungwana,
Here is a link to the actual instructions I referred to (I copied those two verbatim):

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Linksys_WRT300N_v1%2C_v1.1

[muungwana]

oh, ok, so you first set a static ip address, do those operations and then set back ip address to dhcp. You can do both from my post above.

[Neo]

oh, ok, so you first set a static ip address, do those operations and then set back ip address to dhcp. You can do both from my post above.

Could I not also do it from PCmenu > More Applications > Configuration > Network Center ?

Please let me know.

[muungwana]

you can change those network properties from there too

[johnmart]

I am not strong in network configuration but I have had trouble setting initial network settings from Network Center.
I have had to do initial settings via pcc -> network and internet -> set up a new network interface, as muungwana said, for success. Later changes via Network Center, worked fine.
Just in case you hit a snag.   

[Neo]

I am not strong in network configuration but I have had trouble setting initial network settings from Network Center.
I have had to do initial settings via pcc -> network and internet -> set up a new network interface, as muungwana said, for success. Later changes via Network Center, worked fine.
Just in case you hit a snag.   

Thanks for the tip, luckily for me everything went off without a hitch.

[GermanTux]

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