Unable to connect to internet on slackware 14.1 (hathway connection)
Hi,
I have a wired internet connection of hathway provider. I would like to use the connection on my desktop as well as my laptop. My desktop pc has windows 7 and yesterday I installed slackware 14.1 (full installation) on my lenovo 3000 n100 laptop.
Previously I had slacko puppy 5.7 installed on my laptop and I was able to use internet on it. Please note that hathway router has saved the MAC address of my desktop. Hence, I had to change the MAC address of laptop (when puppy linux was installed) to match my desktop's MAC address for making the internet connection work on laptop.
Now I have slackware 14.1 installed and have followed the documentation provided to setup my network, without success. After going through netconfig, I have edited /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf and made the following changes:
where HWADDR[0] matches my desktop's MAC address.
After this edit, I ran /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 eth0_start to make connection. This too seems to succeed. It finds and IPv4 address and the child process goes to background.
But when I open firefox and try connecting to google.com, it fails. I have also checked ifconfig output to find that eth0 does take the MAC address specified in HWADDR[0].
I have also tried using networkmanager shipped with slackware (from XFCE dekstop) without success.
I read your post with interest. Although I know nothing about "Hathway router" I would like to ask you why you think it's okay to set two different computers to the same MAC address? Can you please post the link or documentation that tells you to do that.
Perhaps your Hathway router is not a real router as we would all know it but, if it is a normal router, setting two devices to the same MAC address would be one sure way to confuse the hell out of it and perhaps cause it to lock out one of the devices.
Please explain why you are setting two MAC addresses identical.
the problem with the provider is that they store the MAC address of the pc the router was first connected to and allows connection only on that pc. I have a PC and a laptop. The router was first connected to my desktop and identifies that only. That's why i cannot access internet on my laptop or any other pc through the connection I have.
I read about this somewhere, that we can clone MAC address on other machines to match the recognized MAC address. So I changed the MAC address and it worked. I have used it on my laptop with windows and puppy linux. Now I have removed both and installed slackware. But, I can't seem to get it working in slackware. That's the fix I'm in.
But, wouldn't that mean I'll have to keep my desktop on to have internet on Laptop?
I'm posting more details which might help you. Here are some commands which i ran and their results
Please note here that I have also tried using network manager (added in slackware 14.1) without success. The commands i ran for networkmanager are:
Also, I tried using wicd with similar issue. And, I could not find a way to clone MAC on wicd GUI.
What i think is that if Hathway had not restricted the connection to one pc (i.e., by storing MAC address and giving connection to that PC only), slackware would connect without any problems. But because I have to change my laptop's MAC address to match my other computer's, maybe slackware isn't reading it correctly (i.e., it's trying to connect by default MAC), whereas Puppy Linux did.
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