09-08-2011
Help setting up a wireless access point
Hello,
A friend of mine just purchased a DLINK 8500AP and I'm trying to help him set up wireless internet in his house. His computers are connected to one of two switches, which are both hooked up to his DSL modem. I connected the 8500AP to one of the switches. According to the instruction manual, I need to configure the switch through a web browser. It says that DHCP is disabled by default, so I need to connect from a host on the same subnet. The default IP address of the 8500AP is 10.90.90.90/8.
Because I'm not very well versed in networking, I apologize if the steps I took do not make sense. Here's what I tried: I couldn't access the IP address in a web browser (I assume because the IP address doesn't follow that of the rest of the network). So, I tried taking one switch and only hooking up the 8500AP and my laptop. I changed my laptop's IP to 10.0.0.1 to put it on the same network. I still wasn't able to access the web sever on the wireless AP.
I would appreciate if you could point me in the right direction. Thanks a lot!
---------- Post updated at 04:21 AM ---------- Previous update was at 01:11 AM ----------
Nevermind, I was able to get into the configuration page. It turns out that DHCP was enabled. I used Angry IP Scanner to find the local IP address and was able to access it through my browser.
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wireless
WIRELESS(7) Linux Programmer's Manual WIRELESS(7)
NAME
wireless - Wireless Tools and Wireless Extensions
SYNOPSIS
iwconfig
iwpriv -a
DESCRIPTION
The Wireless Extensions is an API allowing you manipulate Wireless LAN networking interfaces. It is composed of a variety of tools and
configuration files. It is documented in more details in the Linux Wireless LAN Howto.
The Wireless Tools are use to change configuration on the fly, to get statistics and diagnose those interfaces. They are described in their
own man page (see below).
Wireless configuration is specific to each Linux distribution. This man page will contain in the future the configuration procedure for a
few common distributions (when I get the necessary info from them). For the time being, check the various files included with the Wireless
Tools package.
DEBIAN 3.0
Debian 3.0 (and later) has integrated wireless configuration in their network scripts.
File : /etc/network/interfaces
Form : wireless_<function> <value>
wireless_essid Home
wireless_mode ad_hoc
See also :
/etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless-tool
/usr/share/doc/wireless.##/README.Debian
ORIGINAL PCMCIA SCRIPTS
If you are using the original configuration scripts from the Pcmcia package, you can use this method.
File : /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts
Form : *,*,*,*)
ESSID="MY_ESSID"
MODE="Managed"
;;
See also :
/etc/pcmcia/wireless
File PCMCIA.txt part of Wireless Tools package
AUTHOR
Jean Tourrilhes - jt@hpl.hp.com
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/
SEE ALSO
iwconfig(8), iwlist(8), iwspy(8), iwpriv(8), iwevent(8).
net-tools 12 July 2002 WIRELESS(7)