[ale] Asus NT-R16 running tomato

[Charles Shapiro]

Yeah, I am headed to the Mac support people tomorrow.  I have of
course tried rebooting the macbook.  I'd like to try it on another
hard-wired network to verify that the problemo is in fact on the
macbook and not on something on My End.  The deal I act on with the
wifey is that I'll make sure that everything works to connect to the
interwebs.  On the other side of the jack she is pretty much on her
own.

-- CHS


On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Matt Rutherford
<matthew.g.rutherford at gmail.com> wrote:
> Have you tried powering the laptop down and then removing the battery for a
> few minutes before re-inserting the battery and powering it back up with the
> ethernet connected?
>
> I have run into a similar issue with ethernet and USB before and the problem
> was with device settings, though this was on different hardware (OpenWRT
> running on a Buffalo router and two different Asus laptops running different
> Linux distros). In one case it was refusing to detect network speeds
> correctly(10/100 when everything else detected gigabit) and the other a year
> later was detecting ethernet and USB at all.
>
> That failing, trying another network followed by the Applestore or their
> support as Doug suggested may be the best option.
>
> Matt
>
> On Jul 14, 2012 6:11 PM, "Charles Shapiro" <hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Colt -- my homebrew, hard-driveless firewall//router machine running
>> SentryCD ( http://www.sentryfirewall.com/ ) -- died Tuesday.  After
>> talking it over with a local guru I decided to get Out of the Hardware
>> Business. I acquired an Asus NT-R16 (
>> http://ca.asus.com/Networks/Wireless_Routers/RTN16/  ) at Fry's for
>> $85 with a $10 rebate. I flashed Tomato USB ( http://tomatousb.org/ )
>> onto it and configured it to be just like colt.  One of the many great
>> features of TomatoUSB is that it has dnsmasq built in, so I can even
>> respond to local network dns requests with real ip numbers.  Fun and
>> simple!  After about 2 hours of messing with it, the Asus was a
>> drop-in replacement for the old colt.
>>
>> Alas, my wife's computer ( an Intel Macbook Pro running Macbook OS X
>> 10.7.4//Lion ) will no longer connect to my wired local network,
>> claiming that the cable is unplugged. My own laptop -- and her old
>> Apple powerbook -- connect just fine over the same cable, so I think
>> that her machine is lying to me.  It also won't connect to the network
>> over a USB->Ethernet interface (an "Airlink 101 USB 2.0 Ethernet
>> Adapter" ).  It recognizes the device and loads some kind of USB
>> driver for it, but no power or link lights ever appear on the
>> interface box itself and the GUI claims the same thing about it
>> ("Network Cable Unplugged").  The USB port works for other devices.
>> The USB->Ethernet device lights up and connects flawlessly on my linux
>> laptop when used there.  I have my wife's machine connected over wifi
>> now, but since her machine is part of the server chain going to the
>> inkjet printer that means I can't print pretty.  The MAC OS 10 GUI
>> seems to lack any way of enabling or disabling the built-in ethernet
>> port, and googling has so far proved useless.  I'm gonna try to
>> connect her Mac to another wired network Monday, but my suspicion is
>> that something is munged in the software which I lack the background
>> to untangle.
>>
>> -- CHS
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