My network is laid out thusly; My desktop and laptop connect to a Netgear prosafe 5 port gigabit switch which plugs into LAN Port #1 on the router; the Windows box is plugged into #2 on the router.
My desktop PC (Gentoo Linux, 3.10.12 kernel) has been connected to the router for over 8 hours without problems. The Windows 7 desktop my roommate uses is having problems being randomly dropped from the network
My laptop (Gentoo, 3.11.1 kernel, mostly the same setup as the desktop but using wicd for network management) is having other issues, such as being unable to connect via ethernet due to what seems to be a DHCP issue. When trying to connect via ifconfig and dhcpcd since wicd was unable to connect, I get these errors:
dhcpcd[560]: eth0: probing for an IPv4LL address
dhcpcd[560]: eth0: checking for 169.254.195.118
dhcpcd[560]: eth0: using IPv4LL address 169.254.195.118
I tried to give the laptop's ethernet MAC address a static IP in the router and run
Quote:
dhcpcd -r 192.168.1.11
but it just gave me the 169.254.195.118 number again. The version of dhcpcd that I am using is the same as the version used by my desktop.
Additionally, my laptop, much like my roommates Windows box, gets randomly booted when it does connect via WiFi. Unfortunatly I don't have any more information about that at this time. I am currently running tail over the wicd log to see what may pop up.
Let me know if I missed an important bit of info, but this is all I have.
Joined: 06 Feb 2010 Posts: 7401 Location: Little Rock
Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2013 13:16 Post subject:
From here, i would try using a more updated build. I have a very similar unit, E900 and 19342 was ok at the time that i wrote that wiki, but i have since seen better wireless performance out of more updated builds.
I appreciate the reply. I've run across other issues with the laptop in question which have led me to believe the issue with ethernet was driver related instead of being a router issue. In the proccess of trying to 'fix' the home network, I've reflashed the e1200 back to the Linksys firmware. The issue of no ethernet carried over on the laptop, and so I will have to fix the laptop (and various other issues that have popped up with it) then give DD-WRT a go again once I know everything is working as intented.
